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FIFTEEN YEARS OF CIVIC HISTORY
Civic Club of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
OCTOBER 1895
DECEMBER 1910
FIFTEEN YEARS OF CIVIC HISTORY
Civic Club of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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A FOREWORD.
It has been thought well to present to our mem-
bers at this time a written detailed resume' of the activ-
ities of the Club during the fifteen years that have
elapsed since its organization, not only as a matter of
interest, but as a permanent record of our various lines
of work. Many of our members who do not actively
participate in the affairs of the Club will doubtless be
surprised at the work revealed by this recapitulation,
the briefest enumeration of which has required the
printing of such a lengthy report.
Organized fitfteen years ago by a committee from
the Twentieth Century Club, with the avowed purpose
of promoting civic and sociologic advancement in every
possible way, the Club has quietly but persistently car-
ried on a campaign to that end; sometimes with greater
aggressiveness than at others, but on the whole steadily
increasing in membership and usefulness until, on its
fifteenth anniversary, it has an enrollment of seven hun-
dred men and women and a well established place in
Pittsburgh's annals as an organization that has been
and is an important factor in all that pertains to our
city's proper development.
Our Club has itself initiated and promoted a notice-
ably large proportion of the progressive movements for
civic betterment that have reached successful culmina-
tion since its organization, and has co-operated with
other associations in similar efforts.
In its principal undertakings the Club has remark-
ably few failures to record. One of its chief character-
istics, as well as one of the elements of its success, has
been its quiet persistency. Its methods have never been
spectacular, and while it has not infrequently met with
temporary defeat, it has kept right on, with patience
and dignity, sometimes for years, to eventual success.
Its primary object is to achieve results; and, while not
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afraid to criticize where criticism might serve good pur-
pose, its policy in the main has. been to work with
material as it finds it, with a co-operative, rather than
a critical, antagonistic spirit.
The Board chronicles with great sorrow the death
during office of one of its four Presidents — Miss Kate
Cassatt McKnight. In the passing away of this grand
woman, whose labors in behalf of her city and her fel-
lowman were so unflagging, not only this Club but the
city suffered an irreparable loss.
The Board desires to express its appreciation of and
extend its thanks to the various chairmen of depart-
ments and committees and the working members there-
of, who have so generously contributed their best
thought and much personal service to the promotion of
the many laudable undertakings of those departments;
and it feels that, while valuing to the full the earnest
work of all, it may with propriety single out for special
mention that of the Soho Baths Committee, whose
labors, extending through a period of years, have been
so arduous and so signally successful.
The Board gratefully acknowledges the indebted-
ness of the Club to Mrs. William Thaw, Jr., by whose
generosity Pittsburgh, through our Club, was given its
first public bath house — our fine structure on Penn Ave-
nuej known as the Peoples Baths.
The Board also feels that the Club has been
especially fortunate in having for its Secretary one so
capable, untiring and devoted as Miss Helena Marie
Dermitt; who has given herself so unreservedly to ad-
vancing the interests of the Club, largely increasing her
regular, constant and all-absorbing duties by the prep-
aration of this report which has involved a vast amount
of labor; for all of which the Board here records its
sincere appreciation.
By the Board.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
of the
CIVIC CLUB OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY
1910—1911.
President
HON. WILLIAM M. KENNEDY
1st Vice President
MRS. FRANKLIN P. lAMS
2nd Vice President
MR. OLIVER McCLINTOCK
3rd Vice President
MR. CORNELIUS D. SCULLY
4th Vice President.
MR. ROBERT C. HALL
Treasurer
MRS. WILLIAM THAW, JR.
Secretary-
Miss H. M. DERMITT
Directors
MR. HAROLD ALLEN
MRS. CLIFFORD D. CLANEY
DR. THOMAS W. GRAYSON
MISS HELEN GRIMES
MR. CHARLES W. HOUSTON
MR. FREDERICK G. KAY
MR. THOMAS J. KEENAN
MRS. W. M. LEATHERMAN
MRS. ALFRED LONGMORE
MRS. WILLIAM MACRUM
MISS EMILIE McCREERY
DR. S. B. McCORMICK
MRS. ENOCH RAUH
MR. WILLIAM A. ROBERTS
MRS. WILLIAM H. STEVENSON
MRS. GILLIFORD B. SWEENY
MR. FREDERICK S. WEBSTER
MRS. WILLIAM T. WHITMAN
Civic Club of Allegheny County
NOTEi: In order to follow without interruption
the individual movements undertaken by
the Civic Club, they are headed under the year the
work was initiated and carried through to completion.
The continuous activity of the Club cannot be judged
by the number or kinds of new work begun each year for
the prolongation of such efforts, since Pure Water,
Smoke, Associated Charities, Anti-Expectoration, Tene-
ment House, Child Labor, The Allegheny County In-
dustrial and Training School and many others, carried
a vast amount of labor into the years following their
initiation: an inheritance that affected certain years
more than others.
Civic Club of Allegheny County
ORGANIZATION The Civic Club of Allegheny
1895 County w^as organized October 8,
1895, as the result of a meeting
called June 4, 1895, by a special committee of the Tw^en-
tieth Century Club, composed of Miss Kate C. Mc-
Knight, Miss Julia M. Harding, Mrs. Imogen B. Oak-
ley, Mrs. F. F. Nicola and Mrs. John B. Herron, Jr.
It was originally planned to incorporate a Depart-
ment of Civics in the general program of the Century
Club work, but as the title suggests better municipal
government, improved social conditions, increased edu-
cational opportunities and a more beautiful city in
which to live, so the object involved the co-operation of
the busy businessman in order to study in detail any
one of these civic problems.
To quote the Pittsburgh "Post" of October 9, 1895,
"The credit of starting this movement belongs to the
Twentieth Century Club. At the initiation of this or-
ganization of women, a large assemblage of citizens
gathered last evening in the rooms of the Club, 408
Penn Avenue. Preachers, lawyers, doctors and business
men were there accompanied by their wives, who took
as much interest in the movement as the men."
The Woman's Health Protective Association, a
small society of women, which had already done much
good in its short period of existence, was quickly
merged with the new movement. From the first the
organization, which was founded on broad lines, seemed
to appeal to the sound judgment and good will of men
and women alike, and resulted in the formation of this
independent agency that has had to meet unexpected
demands and new opportunities with efficiency and
foresight in order that the work of to-day may not have
to be undone to-morrow.
The purpose of The Civic Club of Allegheny County
has been verified by a few of the things it accomplished
in its first fifteen years.
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It initiated;
THE PLAYGRIOUND MOVEMENT IN
PITTSBURGH AND ALLEGHENY.
THE WORK OF THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY
OF PITTSBURGH.
THE PUBLIC OBSERVANCE OF ARBOR
DAY.
THE FREE MEDICAL INSPECTION IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
It conducted :
The public campaign for PURE WATER.
A vigorous campaign for SMOKE PREVEN-
TION.
It secured by municipal legislation:
THE MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL (erected above
•■ Grant Boulevard).
THE FIRST TUBERCULOSIS PAVILION
(erected at Marshalsea).
THE TREE COMMISSION OF PITTS-
BURGH.
It drafted and is responsible for:
THE TENEMENT HOUSE LAWS governing
cities of the second class in PENNSYL-
VANIA.
THE ANTI-EXPECTORJATION ORDI-
NANCES forbidding expectoration on the
streets, in street cars and public places.
Civic Club of Allegheny County
The law providing the ALLEGHENY COUNTY
INDUSTRIAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL
FOR BOYS (located at Thorn Hill, Mar-
shall Township, on the Butler, Harmony &
New Castle R. R.)
It organized :
THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF PITTS-
BURGH.
THE CHILD LABOR ASSOCIATION OF
ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
THE JUVENILE COURT OF ALLEGHENY
COUNTY, in conjunction with the Perma-
nent Civic Committee of Women's Clubs.
It owns and operates two public bath houses :
THE PEOPLE'S BATHS, valued at.$ 71,000.00
THE SOHO BATHS, valued at..... 120,000.00
These and many other progressive and preventive
measures have been advanced by the Civic Club. Their
accomplishment has been obtained by a devotion to
the public welfare through an active and generous ser-
vice-giving membership in whose faithful personal per-
formance of the duties involved is found the answer to
the Club's right to exist and to demand the earnest con-
sideration of the citizens of Pittsburgh.
PRESIDENTS The first officers of the Club were
appointed on the date of the meeting
called to organize, to serve six months. Professor John
A. Brashear acted as Chairman for this period. Hon.
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Henry Kirke Porter was the first President and served
from May, 1897 to December, 1899; Hon. William M.
Kennedy, the second President, from December, 1899, to
December, 1900; Mr. Edwin Z. Smith, the third Presi-
dent, from December, 1900, to November, 1902; Miss
Kate Cassatt McKnight, the fourth President, from No-
vember, 1902, until her death, August, 1907. Hon.
William M. Kennedy, the first Vice President at the
time of Miss McKnight's death, served as acting Presi-
dent until the Annual Meeting in November, 1907, wh n
he was elected fifth President of the Civic Club. Mr.
Kennedy has been one of the officers or a director on
the Board since the Civic Club's inception. That his
loyalty to its work and aims has been unceasing
through fifteen years is evidenced by the fact that on
its anniversary in 1910, he was re-elected for the fifth
time to serve as its President.
TREASURERS The office of Treasurer has been
filled by five successive incumbents.
Mr. John B. Jackson was appointed at the first meeting
and served until May, 1897. From this date Mr. James
R. Mellon served to October, 1898; Mr. T. H. B. Mc-
Knight from October, 1898, to October, 1902; Mrs. Lil-
lian Marshal Brown from October, 1902, to February,
1903. Mrs. William Thaw, Jr., was elected February,
1903, and with her re-election in 1910 for the eighth time
continues faithfully to serve the Civic Club in this ex-
acting and responsible capacity as its fifth treasurer.
SECRETARIES The office of Secretary has exper-
ienced a greater number of changes.
During several periods an officer pro tem filled the gap
between definite appointments. Mrs. Mary Biddle An-
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derson, Secretary of the Educational Department, dur-
ing an exceptionally busy period rendered valuable ser-
vice in the first years of the Club's work. Mr. James O.
Handy v^as the Club's first Secretary, follov^ed by Mrs.
Imogene B. Oakley, Mr. Curtis G. Hussey, Mrs. Susan
Elwing Hays, Mrs. Herbert L. Stitt, Miss Mary Y.
Wheeler, Mrs. Dallas Albert, Miss Hannah Patterson
and Miss Helena Marie Dermitt.
DEPARTMENT OF The Chairmen of the Depart-
GOVERNMENT ments of Government have been
Mr. E. Z. Smith, who served
until 1898; Mr. Edwin L. Mattern, from 1899 to 1902;
Mr. Charles B. Price, from 1902 to 1908. From this
date the President has made the appointment of com-
mittees under this department.
EDUCATIONAL The Educational Department has
DEPARTMENT been most ably conducted by Mrs.
David Kirk from October, 1895 to
June, 1896 ; Miss Beulah Kennard from 1896 to Novem-
ber, 1901. Following this date Mrs. George H. Wilson,
Mrs. J. J. Covert and Miss Nannie Mackrell filled the
office consecutively until Mrs. William Macrum took
the chair in November, 1905. In January, 1907, owing
to ill health, Mrs. Macrum resigned the office to Mrs.
James L. Francis, who in turn directed the work of the
department until January, 1909, when with her change
of residence, Mrs. Macrum again resumed the oflfice,
and is at present its very efficient Chairman. By her
good judgment, firmness and capable management Mrs.
Macrum has rendered invaluable service through this
Department.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE The Social Science Department
DEPARTMENT has been equally fortunate in its
quota of Chairman. Dr. Frank
LeMoyne was appointed with the organization of the
Civic Club, and served until January, 1898. Mr. Robert D.
McGonnigle, Mrs. F. F. Nicola and Miss Mary Lippin-
cott presided in turn until 1903, when Mrs. Franklin P.
lams was appointed. Not only has Mrs. lams been a
directing executive in this department but as Chairman
of the Legislative Committee has assisted every other
department with its laws and ordinances. She has
largely anticipated and actively followed the work of
every committee in the Club as its First Vice President
for the same number of years, and not only has given
more liberally of her time and strength than the law
allows, but has given to the city the benefit of her
study and careful observation of existing conditions.
Through countless interviews, intercessions and some
interferences, where it has been necessary, she has been
a potent factor in all movements that look toward the
betterment of the city.
DEPARTMENT The Department of Art has been
OF ART served by four Chairmen ; Mr. Frank
S. Bissell, Mrs. William Thaw, Jr.,
Miss Ida Smith and Mr. John W. Beatty.
PURE WATER The opening year, in fact the first
1895 meeting of the Civic Club, held
October, 1895, was auspicious
through its presentation to the public of the necessity
of a pure water supply for Pittsburgh. In 1893 several
organizations had held a meeting for this purpose, but
nothing more had been done until the Citizens League
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of the Unitarian Church made a bacteriological test
and public illustration of the possibility of sand filtra-
tion. Mr. James O. Handy, a member of the League
and Recording Secretary of the Civic Club at that time,
was a leader in the movement, and following the erec-
tion of a sand filter on the church property in Septem-
ber, 1895, directed the Civic Club Board in an active
campaign to bring the matter before the public. The
October meeting was followed by a mass meeting in
December of the same year and others in February and
June of 1896, when various speakers described methods
followed in other countries. Nothing of moment was
done from this time until December, 1903, when the
Butler epidemic prompted the Civic Club to petition
Mayor Hays and the Councils to take more speedy
remedial measures for furnishing a purer supply of
water.
From this time, in each year through to 1906, public
attention was called to this supremely important mat-
ter. Petitions were sent to the medical societies and
chemists, to Director Ridgeway and the Board of
Health, urging them to take steps toward having the
traction companies post signs in their cars to "boil the
drinking water". These signs were also put on hy-
drants and in conspicuous places. The Civic Club may
fairly claim a large share of the success of this move-
ment, which was taken up and ably forwarded by others.
Following the appointment of a Water Filtration Com-
mission and the appropriation of over four million dol-
lars, the crystallization of the agitation came in the
building of the Filtration Plant at Aspinwall. .
GARBAGE The passage of ordinances in Pittsburgh
1895 and Allegheny, January and February,
1895, regulating the disposal of garbage,
was due to the efforts of the Woman's Health Protec-
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tive Association. Immediately upon its assimilation
with the Civic Club its endeavors were continued in the
Social Science Department.
The desirability of placing cans or boxes in public
places for the receipt of waste paper and the like was
advocated and in 1896 and 1897 a number of cans were
purchased and placed in the streets where the public
and the school children could assist in keeping the
streets clean.
The granting of the provision empowering the
city to remove and dispose of the garbage was followed
by a serious consideration of the city's facilities to per-
form the obligation imposed upon the Bureau of Health.
The Civic Club's agitation of this question directly re-
sulted in the passage of ordinances in both cities grant-
ing the contract for the regular collection of such waste,
to private companies.
It was not intended at the time that this arrange-
ment should be permanent, as even then it was deemed
extravagant. The passage of the yearly contract ordi-
nance, however, has held in abeyance the object sought
in that time, viz. : the scientific and up-to-date method
adopted in other cities through a municipal incineration
plant. In 1908 the Civic Club heartily endorsed Dr.
Edward's plans and recommendations for the removal
and disposal of waste by the municipality. It earnestly
hopes the necessary money may soon be available for
the building of an incineration plant in accordance with
the plans as authorized by the bond issue.
PLAYGROUNDS With the belief that one of the
1896 greatest responsibilities of this gen-
eration is the laying of the founda-
tion for future citizenship, comes the realization .that to
be a good citizen the child must learn to respect author-
ity, to recognize the rights of others, and to observe the
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principle of "playing fair" in matters of mutual depen-
dence. Where are children to learn these principles of
life if they do not start in the playground?
In 1896 the Civic Club came face to face with the
fact that the streets of Pittsburgh afforded the only
playground the children knew (especially in the crowded
districts), and it resulted in the most important work
undertaken by the Club during its initial year, the first
step in what to-day is the largest and most far-reaching
social influence in Greater Pittsburgh, namely, the
opening of the first summer playgrounds in July 6, 1896,
in the Forbes School under the Department of Educa-
tion, Mrs. David Kirk, chairman, with Miss Beulah
Kennard, Chairman of the Committee in charge. The
cost of this first year's work was $125.00. In 1897 four
school-yard playgrounds were conducted — the Forbes
and Ralston in Pittsburgh and the 5th and 9th Wards
in Allegheny, at a cost of $603.72. In 1898 there were
seven school-yard playgrounds — Soho, Birmingham,
O'Hara, High School, and the 1st, 3d, and 9th Wards in
Allegheny, at a cost of $901.50. In 1899 there were
nine school-yard playgjrounds in Pittsburgh — the
O'Hara, Ralston, Grant, Lincoln, Central High School,
Birmingham, Monongahela, Morse and Humboldt, with
one vacation school in the Franklin building, and three
school-yard playgrounds in Allegheny — the 3d, 5th, and
9th Wards. For the first three years this work was
supported entirely by the Civic Club through contribu-
tions of its members and interested friends; for the
fourth year, of the total expense of $1,982.42— $1,421.40
was appropriated by the Central Board of Education of
Pittsburgh for the work in the Pittsburgh district. The
balance, or $561.05, was paid out of the Civic Club treas-
ury for the Allegheny Playgrounds.
The Civic Club having proved the summer schools
a success and believing the time had come when they
should be supported by city appropriation and become
a permanent institution, directed the committee to take
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steps toward more extended plans. In 1900 a joint com-
mittee of women's clubs of Pittsburgh was asked to co-
operate with it, and they took up the work most en-
thusiastically, secured city appropriation and later be-
came two separate organizations. The Allegheny divi-
sion, under its capable President, Mrs. John W. Cow-
ley, has become a success far beyond the dreams of the
first committee. The Pittsburgh division remains under
the continued leadership of Miss Kennard, the President,
who, from the beginning of the movement in the Civic
Club on through to this date has, by her keen sympathy
for the social needs of the city, her personal service and
untiring efforts, contributed most generously to the won-
derful success of the playground movement in Pitts-
burgh.
EXPECTORATION In this same year, 1896, the
1896 campaign against expectoration
in the street cars was instituted.
Through continued and eventually successful efforts,
the committee induced the traction companies to put
signs in their cars. As a result of petitions signed and
presented to the councils of both cities asking for an
ordinance forbidding expectoration in public places,
ordinances were passed in 1896 in both Pittsburgh and
Allegheny forbidding expectoration in street cars. This
law which has been enforced with varying degrees of
success was good as far as it went, and was especially
valuable as an educative measure, helping to prepare the
public for a much more rigid one. Several ordinances
were presented and lost, but finally in July, 1906, one
prepared and presented by the Social Science Depart-
ment of the Civic Club passed the city councils and is
now a law. A grateful acknowledgement is hereby ex-
tended to Dr. E. R. Walters through whom the ordi-
nance was introduced and passed.
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While the Committee, under the Chairmanship of
Mrs. W. W. Wishart, was painfully working this ordi-
nance through the city legislative bodies, it was at the
same time making efforts with the State legislature for
the passage of a State law regulating this offensive and
dangerous habit, and twice presented bills to that body;
one in 1903, which was passed, but vetoed by Governor
Pennypacker, on the ground that it gave too much power
to conductors ; and another in 1905, which had to be re-
vised so many times, to meet objections of various
members, that the legislature finally adjourned before
its passage was secured.
In 1907 the legislative committee used its influence
for the passage of a comprehensive bill which became a
law that year, which covers not only cities but boroughs,
townships and all public conveyances, including railroad
cars, etc.
The ordinance now in force in this city forbids ex-
pectoration not only on the floors of public buildings
and conveyances, but also on the sidewalks, and gives
the police power to arrest all offenders, who are subject
to fine and imprisonment. It also provides that the city
shall keep at all times posted notices on the streets for-
bidding the vile practice, and that all owners of public
buildings and public vehicles shall at all times keep such
notices conspicuously posted, failure to do which sub-
jects them to fine. The Bureau of Health is charged
with the enforcement of this law, the appropriation for
the little blue and white street signs (which are monu-
ments to the persistence of the Civic Club) being in-
cluded in its budget. The street car company after
sufficient pressure changed the paste-board signs which
frequently slipped out of place, to metal ones. While
the conditions have greatly improved, the education of
the careless has been slow and up to this date the Civic
Club calls the attention of the Department and street
car company to the continued violations. The officers
of both being apparently anxious to enforce the law, but
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the police and conductors do not faithfully carry out the
provisions as instructed.
MUNICIPAL The crying necessity for a municipal
HOSPITAL isolation hospital for contagious dis-
1896 eases was another subject which, be-
ginning with the year 1896, engaged
the interest of the Social Science Department under Dr.
Frank LeMoyne, and in conjunction with the local med-
ical societies, the matter was thoroughly canvassed and
earnestly pressed upon the attention of the municipal
authorities. An appropriation through a bond issue
was secured, and the experimental plans prepared by
Dr. Thos. Turnbull of this Department were used as
the starting point in carrying out this plan, and the
Municipal Hospital above the Grant Boulevard is the
visible result.
PEOPLES One of the most interesting experiments
GARDENS tried in 1896 was what was known then
1896 as the "Pingree potato patch idea", with
Mr. Frank S. Bissell as Chairman of the
Committee in charge. Quite a sum of money was raised,
40 acres of land were secured and put into 120 garden
plots throughout the city, to be cultivated by poor fam-
ilies under expert supervision. Owing to an unusually
wet and rainy summer, this experiment did not prove
entirely successful, as many of the vegetables planted,
rotted in the ground, so it was not tried the second
year.
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MISCELLANEOUS During the year 1896, the Club
ACTIVITIES vigorously agitated the ques-
1896 tion of securing women school
directors, of procuring legisla-
tion to compel the provision of seats in stores where
women and girls are employed; of introducing the sub-
ject of cheaper street car service and of protesting
against the indecently overcrowded and unsanitary
cars.
PEOPLES BATHS When the Civic Club was organ-
1897 ized, among the committees ap-
pointed in the Social Science De-
partment was one on Public Baths with Dr. Thomas
Turnbull, a most untiring and efficient Chairman, and
Mrs. F. F. Nicola, a no less active Secretary; the object
being to secure the establishment of a system of public
baths throughout the city. Letters were sent to all the
public baths of Europe and to those in this country
(though at that time there were not many in the U. S.)
regarding cost and maintenance. The committee decid-
ed it would take at least $20,000 to start such an enter-
prise. The question of raising the money was a serious
one, and many plans were tried, but it was found im-
possible at that time. Miss Matilda Denny was willing
that a piece of property, known as Snyders Square, which
had been given by her mother to the city for .a public
park might be used, but the city was not willing to give
it up. The Adams Market was next thought of, but all
the heirs could not be found, and just at a time when
the Club was in despair a generous offer was made by
one of its members, Mrs. William Thaw, Jr., to erect
and equip a Peoples Bath, as a memorial to her hus-
band William Thaw, Jr. Early in June 1897 the work
was started and on Thanksgiving Day of that year the
first public bath in Pittsburgh was presented to the
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Civic Club for operation and maintenance. The build-
ing v^as located at the corner of Sixteenth Street and
Penn Avenue and contained thirty-two shower baths
and two tubs ; the compartments being all marble with
cement floors. The second story had five rooms for the
use of the superintendent. A charge of five cents was
made for a bath, each bather being given soap and a
towel, and one day each week was set apart for women
and children.
The first year the income was just sufificient to pay
operating expenses, and a few years later increased to
such proportions as to warrant a small addition to the
building.
In 1907 the U. S. government purchased the prop-
erty for $70,000; the site to be used for a post office.
A location at 19th Street and Penn Avenue was then
purchased and under the direction of Mrs. Thaw a new
and more modern bath house was erected. This build-
ing will serve the public even more satisfactorily than
the old institution, as there is a separate floor to be de-
voted to women and children, making a total provision
for forty-three showers and four tubs. A barbershop
occupies the front of the basement.
That it has not only become a necessity but a boon
to the neighborhood, is evidenced by the fact that in
its thirteen years of existence 846,539 men, women, and
children have availed themselves of the privileges there
offered. The Committee in charge early decided that
no one who could not afford even five cents for a bath
should be turned away, so that of this total 61,267 were
given free of charge. The total receipts have been
$39,103.71 and the expenditures have kept within this
amount, so that it is self-sustaining, and as far as is
known is one of the very few if not the only bath of its
kind in the country that does not have to be assisted by
an appropriation from the city or contributions from
private sources.
The operation of this bath-house, with its much appre-
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ciated opportunities for cleanliness, has been remarkably
successful and the great and constantly growing use-
fulness of this benevolent and public-spirited enterprise
reflects not only great credit upon the generous donor
but upon the Committee (or Board, as the management
is properly called) who have had it in charge.
SALUTE TO In 1897 the Civic Club introduced the
THE FLAG ''Salute to the Flag" in several schools
1897 by presenting a number of flags to the
Franklin School (m the 7th and 8th
Wards), where a large proportion of the children were
of foreign birth, and needed education and object-les-
sons in patriotism. This example was followed later
by the Pittsburgh Chapter D. A. R. which has furnished
flags for a number of schools and playgrounds.
CHILDRENS LEAGUES The "Children's Leagues
OF GOOD of Good Citizenship"
CITIZENSHIP which were inaugurated
1897 in 1897 by the Educational
Department, soon after
the playground movement became a success, proved less
enduring, principally because of the indifference and
discouragement shown by the school authorities. The
leagues were established in six schools ; the 5th Ward
(Allegheny), Franklin, Ralston, Columbian Council
School, Birmingham, and 6th Ward in Pittsburgh,
Badges or buttons and cards with the rules were given
to the children and the work proved most interesting
and attractive the first year, but as in every case save
that of the Columbian Council School they lacked the
co-operation of teachers and principals, they gradually
ceased to exist. The latter, under the direction of Mrs.
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Van Wagonen and Mrs. A. Leo. Weil, continued for
some time to hold the interest of the children in the
"hill district."
MISCELLANEOUS During the year 1897, activities
ACTIVITIES of greater or less importance
1897 were absorbing the attention of
committees not otherwise ap-
propriated. Among them were the efforts to have
w.holesome food provided at the various school build-
ings and to have diet kitchens established where boys
and girls could purchase their luncheon instead of eat-
ing the unwholesome food procured at outside bakeries;
to have the ordinances enforced prohibiting fast riding
and driving, also prohibiting the throwing of fruit or
vegetables upon the streets, etc.; to have the number
of letter-carriers increased through the Postmaster Gen-
eral at Washington ; to have the sidewalks cleaned ; to
urge civil service reform, and the adoption of the merit
system in state and municipal affairs.
ASSOCIATED The ,history of the Civic Club does not
CHARITIES record an undertaking that had a more
1898 discouraging career than that inaug-
urated to federate the Charities of
Pittsburgh. The interval between the beginning and
the consummation of this effort saw the most prolonged
and aggravated problem that was ever launched in the
organization. The discouragments and rebuffs counter-
acted by the patience and determination to ultimately
associate the charitable and philanthropic organizations
involves too much detail to recite at this time, but the
fact that the Civic Club succeeded in accomplishing its
purpose, namely, the organization and incorporation of
the Associated Charties of Pittsburgh is a tribute to the
perseverence of the members devoted to this cause.
Civic Club of Allegheny County 23
With the knowledge of at least four unsuccessful
attempts (from as many different sources) to system-
atize the administration of Pittsburgh charities, Mr.
Robert D. McGonigle accepted the Chairmanship of the
Social Science Department in January, 1898, on condi-
tion that the members would undertake a large amount
of active work which he was willing to outline and di-
rect, stating that what he considered the most important
matter for the Civic Club to take up would be the or-
ganization of the various charities on a business basis.
A large committee was formed with a plan along
lines laid down by similar organizations in other large
cities. It was not inaugurated with the idea that the
existing societies and organizations were not doing all
the work they were intended to do, but because there
was a lack of interchange and organization which is
found so desirable in all branches of work, commercial
and otherwise. The subcommittees were detailed in the
preliminary work of education that necessarily was
deemed the largest factor in the program of work. The
plan taken from an exhaustive printed report. May 16,
1898, looked for the following results :
1st. No outdoor relief by the city.
2nd. Strict investigation of each case.
3rd. Beggars and vagrants to be arrested and dis-
posed of by the police department.
4th. All dependent children provided for.
5th. The worthy poor helped by the proper
authorities.
6th. Medical relief given those in need.
7th. Chronic paupers sent to the almshouse.
8th. Most important of all, no duplications and no
impositions by the applicants receiving relief at all
hands, but each one being referred to the proper society
or department under which they might come.
9th. Money sent to all concerned and good work
done in all directions.
24 Civic Club of Allegheny County
The outlook seemed promising at the end of the
first year and the prejudice against the movement and
the opposition thereto seemed to be gradually passing
away, as it became apparent that the Civic Club did not
wish to abolish any existing charitable institutions, but
desired each to be represented in order to avoid dupli-
cation. A Committee of fifteen with Hon. Wm. M.
Kennedy, Chairman, was appointed to compile a report
of the annual amount of relief given by churches and
charity organizations for presentation at a public meet-
ing, with a view to establishing an Associated Charities
Organization.
In March, 1899, cards were printed; 500 of these were
for Allegheny, with the hope that an index card system
could be introduced, but, when success seemed assured,
an unexpected opposition from one or two of the most
important charitable organizations defeated the plan.
Quite a period elapsed covering some missionary work
in this direction when Mr, Kennedy again urged the
necessity for the establishment of a Department of Or-
ganized Charities. In 1905 Miss McKnight, who had
previously assisted the Committee and was now Presi-
dent of the Club, with Mrs. Frederick Bagley, Chairman
of the Civic Club committee, began a fresh campaign of
education and endeavor to overcome this opposition.
A conference and interviews were held, but the outcome
was most discouraging, with the additional ill-fate of
losing Mrs. Bagley, whose residence was changed to
another State. However, under the new Chairman, Mrs.
C. D. Claney, ably assisted by Miss Edna Meeker, a
meeting was held June 10, 1907, which was attended by
the representatives of eight of the leading societies.
After going over the plan thoroughly it was agreed by
those present that it would serve relief societies by
handling for them cases that required other treatment
than material assistance ; it would help hospitals and
other institutions doing indoor relief work and having
Civic Club of Allegheny County 25
no "visitors", by investigating cases for them ; it would
help churches, other religious bodies and the general
public by giving prompt attention to all cases of need
referred by them to this central bureau or clearing house
and placing each family or individual under the care of
the organization already established to assist them.
It was agreed that the Civic Club should take the
initiative in presenting the matter of the federation of
charities to other societies at a large meeting to be held
in the Chamber of Commerce. Accordingly this meet-
ing was held on June 20th, 1907. Hon. William M.
Kennedy presided, and Mr. Wm. H. Allen, General
Agent for the A. I. C. P. of New York, made the
principal address. Over 200 attended, representatives
of about 100 churches and philanthropic societies ;
some spoke for and some against it, but a resolution
was adopted by the majority favoring the association
of all the charities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, and
directing the Chairman to call another meeting for
further deliberation. On June 28, 1907, the Civic Club
committee presented an elaborate plan to the Board of
Directors consisting of eight sections, one of which was
that permission be granted the committee to raise $3,-
000.00 for the purpose of securing data and co-operation
with this committee. In general, the plan as outlined
proposed that the Civic Club guarantee the sal-
ary of a secretary for six months with all office
expenses and that work be started at once. There
were many meetings regarding the advisability of
this plan and several applicants for the position
from other cities were being considered, when
the overwhelming catastrophe of Miss McKnight's
death put an end to any further work for the moment.
At the time of her death she had. already started
a fund for the maintenance of a central office.
The wonderful impetus she gave this work was
building better than she knew, for through her
experience, bought by labor unceasing and her famil-
26 Civic Club of Allegheny County
iarity with the conditions, her far-seeing and brilliant
mind brought the work to a point where the Civic Club
was bound to carry it out.
On October 18, 1907, another mass meeting was
held at which Mr. Kennedy presided and Mr. Francis
McLean, at that time Field Secretary of Charities and
the Commons, spoke in reference to the relations of the
central organization to the other societies. Representa-
tives from 175 churches and philanthropic societies in
Allegheny County were present. A Committee of 15,
with Mr. Kennedy as Chairman, was appointed "to ar-
range and establish a Federation of Philanthropies in
Pittsburgh and to place it on a working basis".
The individual labor of this Committee of fifteen
with the help of Mr, Guthridge, General Secretary of
the Associated Charities of St. Paul, the energetic and
helpful assistance of Mr. Francis McLean of New York,
Mr. Cornelius D. Scully, of the Civic Club, resulted in
effecting an organization in December, 1907, incorpo-
rated as the Associated Charities of Pittsburgh on Feb-
ruary 21, 1908.
Dr. R. M. Little accepted the temporary Chairman-
ship and gave of his time and ability so unstintingly
that much of the well-deserved success of the Associa-
tion is due to his initiative and leadership.
Top much credit cannot be given to all those who,
too numerous to mention, devoted so much time and
personal service to the organization of this most valu-
able philanthropic agent, whose fundamental purpose
may be realized only in the development of broad-spir-
ited, patient co-operation among individuals and exist-
ing charities.
ART EXHIBIT In May 1898, the Art De-
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS partment, under Mrs. Wm.
1898 Thaw, Jr., amply justified
its existence by its well-
considered endeavors to introduce into the public
Civic Club of Allegheny County 27
schools the means of awakening the children to a
sense of the beautiful in nature and art. A large col-
lection of pictures and casts, which had been purchased
and presented to the Civic Club, was divided into ex-
hibits of twelve pictures and five casts each. During
five years the pictures were simply loaned to the schools
in both cities as a traveling art collection. At the end
of the year 1903 the collection was broken up, and the
pictures and casts were presented permanently to the
schools. Through the influence of the Chairman, sixty
pictures and casts were presented by the late William
R. Thompson to the Fourth Ward school in Pittsburgh.
Some of these were placed in the halls and the rest in
one large room. This was called the "Art Room",
which the children were permitted to visit any time after
school hours.
ARBOR DAY Following the activities in connection
1898 with starting the traveling art exhibit,
Mrs. Thaw and her department in the
year 1898 enlisted the assistance of 'the Educational De-
partment in plans for inaugurating the observance of
Arbor Day in the Public Schools. Mrs. Van Wagonen,
as Chairman of a special committee, outlined a compre-
hensive program which was presented to and approved
by the Pittsburgh and Allegheny School Boards of Con-
trol and the Principals' Club, and was sent to the schools
in both cities. Mr. E. M. Bigelow co-operated by furnish-
ing trees for some of the school yards, and the day was
quite extensively observed by most of the schools. The
reading of the Governor's proclamation, talks about
trees, songs and tree planting were included in the cere-
monies. The following year the Association of Colleg-
iate Alumnae co-operated, and besides the public school
exercises for which the committee furnished the pro-
grams in both Pittsburgh and Allegheny, it was cele-
brated at the Newsboys Home, at the Colored Orphan
28 Civic Club of Allegheny County
Asylum, where Miss Oliver planted trees, Protestant
Orphan Asylum, Home for the Friendless, and at the
Peoples Bath House where Mrs. Thaw planted trees,
Kingsley House taking part in the celebration. The
Civic Club carried on this work with varying degrees
of success throughout the following years. The spirit
of the day has taken a stronger hold on the schools and
its significance has been illustrated through lectures by
many interested persons, notable among whom is Mr.
Frederick S. Webster and Professor John A. Brashear.
Through the principals and teachers the Linden,
Homewood, Liberty, Friendship, and 5th Avenue High
School have contributed largely to its success.
MISCELLANEOUS At various times during the year
ACTIVITIES 1898 efforts were made to have
1898 manual training and domestic
science taught in all the schools;
and an effort was made, with the assistance of Director
J. O. Brown of the Department of Public Safety, to sup-
press the posting of immodest and objectionable posters ;
the opportunity was taken to co-operate, at the sugges-
tion of the Rev. Chas. L. Thurgood, with the "Early
Closing Association Movement".
EVENING INDUSTRIAL One of the most impor-
SCHOOLS tant and successful things
1898 undertaken by the Edu-
cational Department in
1898 was the boys' evening industrial schools, under
the enthusiastic and successful Chairmanship of Mrs.
Oscar Kleber. At the first one started in the O'Hara
School 100 boys presented themselves, but only 30
could be accommodated. Later on another Boys' Club
Civic Club of Allegheny County 29
was started with 35 boys from 9 to 16 years, in several
rooms tendered by the directors of the Springfield
School.
While these evening schools were later abandoned
(for they were practically j;he beginning of the Law-
renceville Civic Club) they were of decided value as
part of the educational movement that has since re-
sulted in the wide public recognition of the necessity for
such evening schools.
YOUNG MEN'S CIVIC CLUB The boys' clubs
OF LAWRENCEVILLE grew so rapidly and
1899 presented such a
field for more pre-
tentious work that Mrs. Kleber, after having personally
examined the scope and magnitude of the working
men's clubs in New York and having learned that boys
as well as men were equally eligible to membership, the
older men paying fees and dues commensurate with
their wage-earning capacity and thus making it possi-
ble for the boys to accept membership without distress,
decided that these same methods could be tried in
Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Kleber took up this work in the old 12th Ward
. of the city, facing the difficulty of getting sufficient men
interested to start the work. Standing by one of the
gates of the large mills, she announced the meeting
which would be held in the Springfield School, and,
though the response lo the invitation was not what
could be called hearty, a few men came, their enthus-
iasm was passed along, several more meetings followed
and the audience increased each time. As it increased,
so did Mrs. Kleber's anxiety as she pondered how she
would obtain the funds necessary to place a roof over
this fully-organized club to be known as the Young
Men's Civic Club of Lawrenceville. The matter was
3U Civic Club of Allegheny County
put before the Civic Club Educational Department and
its support was readily granted, Miss Kennard, its
Chairman, proving an able assistant.
Mr. H. C. Frick gave a liberal cash donation and a
number of gentlemen signified their willingness to be-
come honorary members, paying $10.00 a year. At the
same time the Civic Club Board agreed to supply any
deficiency in the rent for the first three months and the
lease was signed for a building at 2901 Penn Avenue in
April, 1899. Later on Mr. Charles Schwab and Mr. Os-
car Kleber guaranteed the rent but it was never necessary
to take advantage of this security. It was a large three
story house, well ventilated, well lighted, clean as^hard
work could make it, and containing a music room, a
gymnasium, equipped by Mrs. C. L. Magee, bath rooms
constructed as the gift of Mrs. J. R. McGinley, billiard
and pool room equipment, the gift of Mr. Charles
Schwab, rooms for conversation, furnis'hed with com-
fortable chairs and leather couch, roll top desk, etc.,
donations from many interested members of the Club in-
cluding Mrs. William Thaw, Jr., and Mrs. Alexander
King. A branch station of the Carnegie Library was
installed and Miss Louise Taylor generously assumed
•the ofifice of librarian. A piano afforded a wealth of
pleasure and comfort to the individual members. A
number of entertainments were given and a large Christ-
mas treat, with all the charm of the holiday festival, was
given to 700 children of the ward in 1899. "BuflFalo
Bill" added a generous donation in the way of entrance
tickets for fifty of the younger boys to ihis Wild West
Show. Under the personal supervision of Mrs. Kleber,
this young army was successfully guided to the show
grounds where the treat was enthusiastically enjoyed
by the youngsters.
The club-house was never closed, for the men work-
ing at day turn used it as late as 11 o'clock at night, and
men employed during the night used it by day. With the
dues fifty cents a month and the donations received, it
Civic Club of Allegheny County 31
became self-sustaining almost immediately and flour-
is'hed for nearly six years. It, however, had not become
independent so far as its management was concerned.
To a man they relied absolutely upon Mrs. Kleber to
take the executive responsibility, with the fatal result
of a complete physical breakdown of their beloved leader
and head. It was deemed advisable to let the men and
boys assume the management, but the loss of their en-
thusiastic confidante and guide seemed to undermine
the organization, and gradually the members'hip of the
Club diminished and the organization declined.
Not realizing that the responsibility that was so
beneficiently assumed by Mrs. Kleber was not only over-
burdening her, but diminishing the power of resistance
when it came to the obstacles to be encountered in self-
government, this Club, through its own inability, ceased
to exist and has unfortunately become a thing of the
pa .St. Without doubt there still lingers in the minds of
those who were fortunate enough to have enjoyed its
privileges, a cherished memory for the many and gen-
erous helps received from the kindly disposed people of
the community and especially the personal services of
Mrs. Kleber and her committee.
YOUNG MEN'S The Young Men's Civic Club of
CIVIC CLUB OF Allegheny was organized in 1899,
ALLEGHENY following the successful begin-
1899 ning of the Lawrenceville Club,
An advisory committee was the
only connecting link with the parent Club save the
great interest of its individual members, chief among
whom were Miss Kate C. McKnight, Mrs. Herbert Du-
Puy, Mrs. Sullivan Johnson and Mrs. William H.
Black. Miss McKnight, who was an active worker for
the Club's best interests up to the time of her death,
and Mrs. DuPuy, who has been the Club's most staunch
32 Civic Club of Allegheny County
supporter since its inception, were responsible for its
organization.
Its first residence was on Western Avenue, but it
was later moved to Windsor Street, Allegheny, where
it was located until August, 1910. The Club, though not
directly following the line of civics, has been very help-
ful in many good movements and showed its apprecia-
tion by doing a large share towards putting Miss Mc-
Knight on the 5th Ward School Board, Allegheny, the
only woman director who has ever served in either of
the two cities.
In the fall of 1909 the membership had decreased,
owing to the change of residence of many of its old
members, and upon appealing to the Civic Club for
assistance, the committee appointed found that all the
efforts made to renew the membership had been fruitless,
as the club-house needed many repairs and a gymnasium
to bring it up-to-date. The business of tiding over the
imminent crisis in the Club's affairs was most capably
handled by Miss Emily McCreery, a member of the
Civic Club Board and Committee, who called a large
meeting in April 1910, started an associate membership
and reorganized the advisory board, whose dues, with
several large donations, have once more put this Club
on its feet. In August, 1910, the property leased by the
Club was sold for a factory site and it now occupies an
entire store building at 1256 Rebecca Street, the gym-
nasium being nicely accommodated in the store room.
A shower bath has been set up which proves an attrac-
tion to the men from the mills across the street.
A series of lectures has been arranged for the win-
ter of 1910 and 1911 by Mr. Julian Kennedy, to be fol-
lowed by Mr. Chas. F. Weller, Rabbi Coffee and others.
Civic Club of Allegheny County 33
SMOKE ABATEMENT In April, 1897, the first Com-
1899 mittee was appointed to
take up actively tlie diffi-
cult proposition of smoke abatement, which it did by
accepting an invitation to inspect certain plants, and evi-
dently was either so ^wcouraged or encouraged that it
ceased operations immediately thereafter. In January,
1899, the Chamber of Commerce appointed a committee
of five and requested that a similar committee be ap-
pointed from the Civic Club to co-operate with them
in a united effort which would be directed toward the
enactment of an ordinance regulating the smoke nui-
sance in Pittsburgh. A Committee with Mr. A. M.
Imbrie, Chairman, did everything in its power toward
this much needed reform, and served in divisions under
heads as follows : A — Committee on smoke arising from
domestic fires and metallurgical manufacturing estab-
lishments. B — Committee on smoke from office build-
ings and all others not included in A. C — Committee on
Legislation; of this latter a sub-committee was ap-
pointed to meet with the city officials and secure the
appointment of a smoke commission. The Civic Club
stayed with this problem to the end and can justly claim
a large share of the glory of this lengthy and trouble-
some campaign. Through varying degrees of success
and discouragement, these committees, supplemented
by other members as time went on, labored until Decem-
ber, 1906, when a most effective ordinance for the pre-
vention of unnecessary smoke in the use of fuel was
passed by both branches of Councils.
As this history goes to press, the Pittsburgh smoke
ordinance has been declared unconstitutional. This
necessitates the passage of a State law conferring the
police power requisite for the enforcement of such ordi-
nances.
LEGAL AID In October, 1899, a committee with Mr.
1899 Edwin L. Mattern as Chairman was ap-
pointed to investigate and report upon
the advisability of establishing a Legal Aid Society un-
I OF THE ^
34 Civic Club of Allegheny County
der the auspices of the Civic Club. After a presentation
of the facts concerning similar work carried on in other
cities, the Board of the Civic Club favorably considered
the plan as outlined and enlarged the committee to carry
out the details of the work.
An active campaign for funds was instituted and a
large sum raised with which to employ counsel when
necessary, for the purpose of giving legal advice and
assistance (including prosecution or defense of suit in
proper cases) to deserving persons in need of such aid
and unable to pay for it.
In 1901 Mr. Wm. A. Jordon was engaged as regular
Attorney. Cards were printed for applicants and distrib-
uted to the various philanthropic agencies. Later on
and up to 1908 the place of the regular Solicitor was
taken by Attorneys who gave their services ; chief among
these being Mr. William McNair, to whom the Club is
indebted for most efficient and generous personal ser-
vice. In May, 1907, a re-organization of the committee
was decided upon and Mr. Richard H. Hawkins and Mr.
Wm. K. Johnson were appointed to draw up a plan of
working rules for enlarging and carrying on the work.
Through this plan a better organization within the Legal
Aid Committee had been made, but on the eve of its
operation, the above committee, with the addition of
eight members of the Allegheny County Bar, believing
they could more effectively carry on the work by organ-
izing and incorporating as an independent legal aid so-
ciety, asked the committee to discontinue its efforts for
six months in their favor.
They desired, however, to secure the co-operation
of the Civic Club in the organization of this society, —
their idea being to have some of the officers of the Club
join with them in a petition for a charter. They pledged
themelves to promote a society along the general lines
suggested in the report submitted to the committee in
July, 1907. They volunteered to assume the duties and
take the place of the Legal Aid Committee of the Civic
Civic Club of Allegheny County 35
Club in establishing a properly organized society in
Pittsburgh. The Board gave its consent and the Legal
Aid Society of Pittsburgh was incorporated in April,
1908. Its charter provides that of its board of nine
directors two shall be members of the Civic Club. Mr.
Charles B. Fernald, Who was Chairman of the committee
at this time, and Mr. Arthur W. Bell were appointed to
serve as the Club's representatives following the organ-
ization.
The Legal Aid Society of Pittsburgh, of which Mar-
cus W. Acheson, Jr., Esq., is at present the very active and
efficient President, fills a most useful field and has been
a conspicuous success from the start. Its permanency as
an organization is guaranteed by a well selected Ad-
visory Board, a generous list of subscribing members,
and the unselfish enthusiasm of its directorate composed
of representative younger members of the Bar. It has
for three years maintained permanent offices, with Ben-
jamin M. Price, Esq., as Attorney in charge, in the Bake-
well Building, and its annual public reports make most
interesting reading and demonstrate its efficiency and
helpfulness, through a wide range of legal procedure, to
the poor and oppressed. This is an off-shoot of the Civic
Club of which the parent body may well be proud.
CIGARETTES Beginning with the year 1899, and at
TO MINORS various times since throughout the
1899 succeeding years, the Civic Club has
been interested in assisting move-
ments for enforcing the anti-cigarette law for minors.
Proof of violation on the part of merchants and threat-
ened prosecutions formed a most effective method of
minimizing the number of cases reported. State legis-
lation on this matter has always been actively en-
dorsed.
36 Civic Club of Allegheny County
SCHOOL INSPECTION The Educational Depart-
1900 ment during the year 1900
concentrated its efforts
upon certain measures in which it 'had been asked to
assist a special committee of the Central Board of Edu-
cation formed for the purpose of increasing the effi-
ciency and securing more uniformity in the public
schools. The new course of study was a subject of
special interest at this time and the Department of
Education held a public meeting to which school direct-
ors and others were invited, for the discussion of this
course of study, in order that it might be understood
and used in all the local schools. The Department also
urged the inspection of the sdhool buildings and that
they should be made sanitary and healthful, with abun-
dance of light and good ventilation. The Committee on
School Legislation began a comparative schedule of
school laws in all the representative States and the Com-
mittee on School Visiting inspected a number of school
buildings.
While not initiating any radical changes in the
schools at this time, the Department was in constant
touch with the progressive members of the Central
Board of Education and members of local boards, and
assisted in securing a number of improvements by co-
operating with these.
MODEL In 1900 a Committee on Better Hous-
TENEMENTS ing for the Poor was created with a
1900 view to effecting the organization of
of a corporation for the building of
model tenements. An open meeting was held February
2, 1900, when the matter was thoroughly discussed. Mr.
Jacob Riis of New York upon this occasion greatly
stimulated the movement by an address on "Improved
Housing of the Poor". Circular letters were sent out
Civic Club of Allegheny County 37
soliciting subscriptions to the stock of the proposed
concern, but the apathetic reception the proposition re-
ceived when it came to a matter of dollars and cents
caused this enthusiastic committee to abandon the plan.
ARSENAL PARK It will no doubt be surprising to
1901 many to learn that as far back as
May, 1901, the Civic Club urged
upon Councils "that steps must be taken immediately to
secure for the benefit of the citizens of Pittsburgh the
site now used as a United States Arsenal for use as a
public park". In December, 1905, a petition was sent
from the Civic Club to the Hon. Wm. H.Taft, then Sec-
retary of War, asking 'him to recommend the presenta-
tion of the Arsenal Grounds to the city for a recreation
park and playground, in case the government decided to
abandon the property. Letters to the same effect were
sent to the Allegheny County Representatives and State
Senators. The Committee received most discouraging
replies and upon advice of the majority of the repre-
sentatives from this district, abandoned the efifort to ob-
tain the grounds as a gift and set about trying to lease
the property for a small rental. This also failed, but the
seed sown in the mind of the Hon. James Francis Burke,
grew and flourished, and largely through his efforts,
what is now known as the Arsenal Park was dedicated
to the use of the public July -ith, 1907. The city and es-
pecially the neighborhood of Lawrenceville, where it is
situated, have frequently acknowledged their deep
sense of gratitude to Mr. Burke for this beautiful and
useful acquisition to the Pittsburg^h Park system.
38 Civic Club of Allegheny County
TEACHERS AND The Teachers and Parents Asso-
PARENTS ciation Committee started by this
ASSOCIATION Club in 1901, ihad its first and
1901 most flourishing organization in
the Garfield School ; the princi-
pal, Miss Sarah Piatt being responsible for the interest
that kept these meetings alive for almost eight years.
The Kindergarten and the Playground Associations
have initiated similiar work and the Educational De-
partment of the Civic Club during the period since 1901
has started these meetings in various schools, believing
that this plan to bring the teacher and parent into
closer touch and understanding is as pleasant as it is
beneficial, and it is hoped that the system will be estab-
lished in ever)^ school in the city.
CITY CHARTER The first report on record of any
1901 action of the Civic Club relative
to a new city, charter for Pitts-
burgih was made on May 2, 1896, when Mr. E. Z. Smith,
Chairman of the Department of Government, reported
a meeting at which a general discussion of the proposed
new charter for Pittsburgh was held, and delegates
were appointed to attend the annual meeting in Balti-
more of the National Municipal League which was then
engaged in formulating a model charter for cities. At
the same time it recorded its unqualified condemnation
of the existing Pittsburgh charter as unscientific,
irrational and apparently designed to promote
irresponsible government. The situation remained
unchanged (except as aggravated by the lapse of
time), up to 1901, when interest in the matter was
stirred up through a number of meetings and animated
discussions which were held, and exhaustive reports
were prepared relative to the value of the various reme-
dial measured suggested. Following the lead of the
Civic Club of Allegheny County 39
Chamber of Commerce, the Civic Club further co-oper-
ated by sending the Chairman of the Committee to Har-
risburg to speak in favor of the Bill which passed the
Legislature in 1901. The Civic Club, however, regis-
tered its opposition at that time to the so called
"Ripper" clause in this Act.
JUVENILE COURT "There is no more well estab-
1901 lished fact than that civic wel-
fare is increased or retarded
in direct ratio to the decrease or increase of the pauper
and criminal classes." It follows that the delinquent
and dependent child affords the most serious problem of
the community's future welfare.
At the end of the year 1901 a committee, consisting
of Mrs. William Whitman, Mrs. E. L. Mattern, Dr.
and Mrs. Henry Francis Wade, Miss Grace Henderson
and the Rev. W. L. Mason, was appointed by the Civic
Club with Mrs. George H. Wilson, Chairman, to formu-
late plans for the organization of a Juvenile Court in
Allegheny County. In the spring of 1902, conferences
were held with Judges, District Attorneys, and County
Commissioners, and money was raised to further the
project; but it was not until November, 1903, that the
work took definite form.
At this time the Permanent Civic Committee be-
came a part of the movement with the result that the
two forces combined and formed what was known as
the Juvenile Court Committee with Mrs. Richard R.
Quay, Chairman, Mrs. E. E. Crocker, Vice Chairman,
Mrs. W. J. Young, Treasurer and Mrs. William T.
Whitman, Secretary. The committee's first efforts
were devoted to securing capable probation ofificers, a
difficult and delicate task. Many applicants for the posi-
tion, under the new Juvenile Court Law, which had
40 Civic Club of Allegheny County
been passed by the preceding Legislature, presented
themselves.
Mrs. Alice Montgomery, whose peculiar fitness for
the important work of probation officer was well known
to the committee through her services in this work in
the Philadelphia Juvenile Court, came to Pittsburgh to
take up the work and was later sworn in as probation
officer by Judge Evans on April 28th, 1903; her salary
being guaranteed by the Civic Club. The printing and
incidental expenses were paid by the Civic Club.
Not unexpectedly, the Juvenile Court Law was de-
clared unconstitutional by Judge Porter of the Superior
Court in Philadelphia in February, 1903. Fortunately
the Legislature was then in session and the Juvenile
Court Committees of both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
were successful in securing the passage of five unexcep-
tionable Acts commonly known as the Juvenile Court
Laws, which Governor Pennypacker signed in March,
1903.
It was early decided that efforts should be made to
arouse interest in the work in the neighboring counties
of Western Pennsylvania. To this end, Mrs. Montgom-
ery addressed meetings in Oil City, Waynesburg, Titus-
ville, and Washington, and 1,000 copies of the Juvenile
Court Laws, furnished by the Civic Club, were sent out.
This seed has born fruit in the establishment of a
Juvenile Court in Washington County.
The second year Miss Kate McKnight was made
Chairman, Mrs. E. E. Crocker, first Vice Chairman, Rev.
C. L. Thurgood, second Vice Chairman, Mrs. Levi Bird
Duff, t'hird Vice Chairman, with Mrs. Quay and Mrs.
Whitman continuing as Treasurer and Secretary respec-
tively.
The next year the Civic Club sent a copy of the
Juvenile Court report (with blanks attached soliciting
subscription) to every member of the Club. The fund
thus created was used to pay the salary of one probation
Civic Club of Allegheny County 41
officer, and this support was continued until January,
1910, after which it was no longer necessary.
In February, 1905, the Juvenile Court Committee
desired to reorganize as an independent association and
the Permanent Civic Committee and the Civic Club
granted this request. The new organization became the
Juvenile Court Association, with Miss McKnight con-
tinuing as President. The Civic Club, however, re-
tained (and still continues to retain) a Juvenile Court
Committee, with: Mrs. William T. Whitman, Chairman,
which has raised funds for the maintenance of one pro-
bation officer and interested itself in the children's
cases.
Special mention must be made of the constant and
devoted attention that Mrs. Whitman has given to every
minute detail of the work of the Juvenile Court move-
ment in this County. Her faithful and loyal service
not only in the Civic Club but in the Juvenile Court As-
sociation through all these years cannot be too highly
commended.
With the passage of an Act in 1909, the Civic Club
and the several other societies which supported proba-
tion officers, were relieved of the payment of these sal-
aries by the County, but each continues to give a cer-
tain sum toward making up the salary of the chief proba-
tion officer, the law not providing more than $100 a
month for each officer. The Civic Club Committee 'has
fitted up, with games, a room kindly loaned by the
Board in the Ralston School, where its probation officer
of that district meets her boys once a week, and stands
ready to give whatever service is needed to other
phases of t'he work that will in any way tend to improve
the Juvenile Court system in this State.
The Juvenile Court Association has an active Legis-
lation Committee, composed of competent Attorneys,
which has framed and caused to be introduced in the
successive sessions of the Legislature a number of Bills
dealing with delinquent children, adult contribution to
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delinquency, salaries of Juvenile Court officers, and
Juvenile Court practice, a number of which form a most
valuable and essential part of the present statute law on
this broad subject. In conjunction with the Philadel-
phia organization, with which this Committee collabor-
ates, it is now engaged in the preparation of comprehen-
sive and progressive Juvenile Court Code, wliich will
ultimately become law and will amplify and systematize
the Juvenile Court jurisdiction and practice throughout
the State.
A Committee has been appointed by the Board of
Directors to apply for a charter of incorporation for the
Association, w'hich is expected to be granted at about the
time this volume goes to press. It has been decidedthatthe
body will gain the benefit of more authoritative standing
under the State law, as well as permanency in form of
organization, under corporate authority.
PERMANENT CIVIC During the year 1902, Miss
COMMITTEE McKnight, who was one of
1902 the officers of the Pennsyl-
vania State Federation of
Women's Clubs, Mrs. F. P. lams, Mrs. Levi Bird Duff
and others, organized what was known as the "Perma-
nent Civic Committee" — a committee composed of rep-
resentatives of the various Women's Clubs in Western
Pennsylvania. Later in the same year Miss McKnight
became President of the Civic Club, and the officers of
the Civic Club and the Permanent Civic Committee be-
ing practically the same, during several ensuing years
the two associations did much of their work in closest
co-operation.
SOHO PUBLIC BATHS No other work of the Club
1902 has involved the raising of
so much money as the
building of these baths, and none of its committees de-
(i Uf\'!VERSiTY
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serves greater commendation both from the Club and
fromi the public than the Soho Baths Committee, to
whose efforts, extending through a period of several
years — whidhi were rendered most arduous by the gen-
eral apathy of the public on the subject of providing
bathing facilities for its poor — the city of Pittsburgh is
indebted for the beautiful and complete building at No.
2410 Fifth Avenue.
When, in the late fall of 1902, the Permanent Civic
Committee of Womens Clubs, whidh also had a Public
Baths Committee, with aims and purposes synonymous
with those of a similar committee of the Civic Club,
aft'iliated itself with this Club along certain analogous
lines of work, and the two bath committees joined
forces, under the efficient leadership of Mrs. Alfred
Longmore as Chairman. Various attempts were made
to induce the city to build bath houses, to provide safe
places for river bathing, etc., to persuade school boards
to install bathing facilities in their school houses, and
large manufactories to equip their plants with showers,
and numerous wealthy citizens were approached with
the suggestion that they erect and donate bath houses.
A sub-committee, of which Mrs. Samuel W. Miller was
a most active member, secured permission from the city
to fit up a part of the old South Side Market House for
public baths, and Councils appropriated $7,000 therefor,
but the Committee had succeeded in so interesting the
late Mr. Henry W. Oliver in the subject that he proposed
to the city that he should erect, equip and donate a
large public bath ; and as this proposed structure was
to be in close proximity to the Market House location,
the latter project was abandoned at the request of the
Committee. Mr. Oliver died before his plans were con-
summated.
On December IGth, 1903, the Committee wrote a
letter to Councils asking for an appropriation of $25,000
toward the erection of a bath house, pledging itself to
raise another $25,000. After some rat'her active educa-
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tional campaign work and an appearance before the
Finance Committee of Councils to urge the merits of the
undertaking, the requested appropriation was made in
February, 1904.
The Soho district had been designated in the appro-
priating ordinance as the location, and after a long and
careful canvas, and acting under the advice of the City
Controller and City Engineer, the present location was
purchased at a cost of $15,500.
The lot first purchased had a frontage of 96 feet on
Fifth Avenue with a depth of about 82 feet, and had
erected thereon a large and substantial three-story
frame building which it was later decided to retain for
settlement house purposes. This necessitated the pur-
chase of more ground for the bath building and Councils
were therefore asked, in December, 1905, for an addi-
tional appropriation of $10,000 to meet this, and in Feb-
ruary 1906, this appropriation was made.
The purchase of this additional lot (24 feet on Fifth
Avenue and running through to Forbes Street), caused
considerable delay in starting building operations, as
the sale was not finally consummated until midsummer of
1907. This lot cost $3,600, but involved the additional
expense of buying out two parties who owned small
houses, and a ground rent — making the total expenditure
for this strip something over $4,200. The entire cost of
the land bought, including the purdiase of these ground
rents and other expenses incident to transfers, etc., and
also including the substantial building used for settle-
ment purposes, thus approximates $21,000 — a most rea-
sonable sum for the amount of ground in that locality,
and as the committee is advised and believes, a most
judicious purchase and an excellent location.
On April 4th, 1904, Councils approved and adopted
a resolution presented by the Civic Club, giving the
Club control of the property — the title to which had
been vested in the City in return for the appropriations
made and to be made.
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On February 11, 1905, Councils passed an ordinance
authorizing the Civic Club to build and perpetually
use all buildings erected on the property "for bath and
other philanthropic purposes".
The large joint committee, after the starting of the
Soho project, deeming that one new bath at a time was
all it could manage, suspended efforts to locate others
throughout the city, and finding itself too large and un-
wieldy a body to conduct, as a whole, the business inci-
dent to building operations, organized the Soho Bath
Board, which held its first meeting as such on April 28,
1905. This Board was composed of 23 members, five of
whom were ex-officio, viz.. President of the Civic Club,
President of the Permanent Civic Committee, the Mayor
and Presidents of Select and Common Councils, respec-
tively. The other members of the joint committee then
turned their energies to enlarging the small but growing
settlement work already established in the house on the
premises. The Bath Board was, under an agreement be-
tween the Permanent Civic Committee and the Civic
Club, to be jointly elected by the two associations, but
the joint management and conduct of the business being
found inconvenient (the Civic Club being a chartered
organization, the other an unchartered, variable body
with a membership extending into other counties), this
agreement was annulled by mutual consent, in Febru-
ary, 1908, and the entire ownership, management and
control of the Baths is now in this Club. But the Civic Club
gladly acknowledges its indebtedness to the women's
clubs for the successful launching and completion of this
undertaking, from the membership of which clubs some
of the most active workers were drawn, and a number
w'hereof have given financial assistance, among them
being (named in the order of the sizes of their respec-
tive contributions) — the New Era, Wimodausus, Soro-
sis. Travelers, Colloquium, Twentieth Century, Colum-
bian Council of Jewish Women, and the Civic Club of
Wilkinsburg.
46 Civic Club of Allegheny County
At the inception of this undertaking, the Committee,
never having built a bath house, and being composed of
neither real estate agents nor plumbers, and guided
somewhat by the cost of the People's Baths (built in
1897), started out with the somewhat indefinite hope
that $50,000 might possibly finance it; which hope, 'how-
ever, was quickly blasted. As soon as it began to look
for a site and talk with architects and builders, it was
found that it would require at least double that sum, —
not only land values but building materials, and
especially plumber's supplies, 'having increased enor-
mously since the Club's first bath building was erected.
The Committee also found that while Pittsburgh is full
of generous people who give freely and even lavishly to
projects that appeal to their sympathies, these were slow
to realize the necessity for public baths and their value
as one of the strongest factors in the making of good
citizens, and the task of raising the money became a
serious one ; the more so because the idea largely pre-
vailed that such institutions should be built entirely at
the expense of the city, rather than by private subscrip-
tion. Several architects submitted plans, one was select-
ed, and the contract let, after competitive bidding, in
the early part of 1907 for a building to cost upwards of
$70,000, In December of that year Councils were again
asked to appropriate $25,000 to the fund, which was
done in February, 1908.
In August, 1909, the building and its equipment was
complete (with the exception of the plunge — which is
still unfinished) and opened to the public.
It is a beautiful cream-colored brick and terra cotta
building, fronting three stories on Fifth Avenue, five
stories in the rear, and with an added entrance from
Forbes Street. The first floor contains 40 showers and
4 tubs, men's and women's waiting rooms and toilet
rooms; the second floor comprising a living apartment
for the Superintendent, a Director's room, and a large
assembly hall which is used for neighborhood entertain-
Civic Club of Allegheny County 47
ments. On the third floor are two apartments which
may be used either as living rooms by the attendants or
for settlement classes, adult reading rooms, and the like;
in the basement are two needle baths, twelve showers,
two tubs for children, a public laundry for use by the
women of the neighborhood who have no facilities for
washing and drying their clothes at home, a private laun-
dry for the use of the institution, and the boiler room; the
sub-basement contains the unfinished swimming pool,
dressing rooms and lockers, constituting as a whole, one
of the most complete bath houses in the country. The
committee takes a most justifiable pride in the fact that
it has been built and equipped at a cost much below that
of similar houses in other cities. The plant comprises a
large lot and two buildings ; tlie new bath house and the
frame settlement house — the cost and equipment of
which, including the completion of the pool and consid-
erable building of outside retaining walls, steps, fences,
etc., yet to be done, will approximate $120,000. By way
of comparison, it may be stated that New York in 1909
had seven municipal public baths, ranging in cost from
$91,500 to $250,000, exclusive of the grounds, the aver-
age cost of maintenance being given as $30,000 a year
for each one.
Mr. Gibson D. Packer, the Chairman of the Build-
ing Committee, to whom a special vote of appreciation
is due for his generous contributions to the enterprise in
the way of ability, time and money, submits the follow-
ing report as to cost to date :
"The total cost of land, building and equipment was
$113,856.80, distributed as follows:
Cost of land, $20,371.63
building, . . ., 84,055.90
equipment, 4,010.30
" improvement Forbes Street
entrance 533.60
Architect's commissions, . , 4,185.37
<{ It
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Cost to secure release from tenants
occupying second story pur-
chased in ground rent, 700.00
Total, $113,856.80
Of the amount expended, the city contributed $65,-
000, a part of its appropriation ($5,000, made in
February, 1910) having been used for maintenance. The
balance was raised through the personal efforts of the
Bath Board, by means of entertainments and contribu-
tions from generous friends — in sums varying from
$5.00 up to $10,000. Among the largest contributors of
$500 and upwards were Andrew Carnegie, Jones and
Laughlin, the National Tube Company, Mrs. C. L.
Magee, H. C. Frick, Gibson D. Packer, Howard H. Mc-
Clintic and wife, John B. Jackson, Mrs. William Thaw,
Robert C. Hall and Norwood Johnston.
The finances of the enterprise were most capably
handled by Mrs. Gilliford B. Sweeny, the Treasurer of
the Bath Board, and so carefully husbanded that
$2,288.56 was added thereto by way of interest on de-
posits.
Of the present Board, the following have been ac-
tive members since its organization: Mr. J. Boyd Duff
(who was elected as Chairman in November, 1905), Mr.
Gibson D. Packer, Chairman of Building Committee, Mr.
Robert C. Hall, and Mrs. Gilliford B. Sweeny, Treasurer,
Mrs. Franklin P. lams. Secretary, Mrs. Alfred Long-
more, Chairman of House Committee. Mrs. Samuel L.
Seymour, Mrs. Enoch Rauh and Mrs. George B.
Motheral, Mrs. William H. Carothers and Mrs. S. L.
Fleis'hman also having been elected to the Board within
a very short time after its organization, all of these,
as well as several who have had to resign, and those
who have come in to take their places from time to time,
have been assiduous workers.
The Superintendent reports the following number
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of baths from date of entry, August 1, 1909, to Novem-
ber 1, 1910.
Men, 38,423
Women, 1,623
Girls, . ' 482
Boys, 1,630
Free, 3,359
Total Baths 45,536
Number of women using laundry, 581
Number of hours the laundry was used, 2050
While the Civic Club wishes that it might have
financed this enterprise without calling upon Councils
after the first appropriation, and while it fully appre-
ciates the way in Which Councils have recognized the
importance of the work by so cheerfully responding to
every call made upon them, the Club has no apology to
ofifer for making these calls. These appropriations were
made to the city, not to the Civic Club, through whose
efiforts, aided by an enlig^htened Councils and by many
generous, public spirited friends (to all of whom the
Club and its Baths Committee hereby tender their sin-
cere thanks), one more public bathing place has been
added to the number it is hoped may soon be erected
throughout the city.
A report of the activities of this Bath Committee
would not be complete without mention of the work
done by those members of the original joint committee
who were not made members of the Board that had the
new building in charge, and who turned their energies
to establishing in the old building a Settlement House
for neighborhood uses. Among the earlier workers here,
in addition to Mesdames Seymour and Longmore, of the
Bath Board, were Mesdames George Porter (the first
chairman), Dallas Albert, Jane Hall, L. O. Livingstone,
Vitallius Matthews, James C. Dick, (Resident Secre-
tary), Rufus Martin, Anna R. Stratton and J. D. Arnold
(at first the Secretary, later Chairman) ; some of whom
50 Civic Club of Allegheny County
'had to give up the service for various reasons, but a
number of whom have worked untiringly for all these
years and have been joined by other able volunteers
such as Mesdames W. M. Carothers, Louis C. Sands, J.
Boyd Duff, E. P. Clark, A. B. Shaw, J. F. Shaffer, and
Emily Keating. This is a most prolific field for settle-
ment work, and these volunteer workers are already
reaping a harvest from their arduous labors, which cover
a wide range of endeavor.
A children's branch of the Carnegie Library is lo-
cated in this building, and numerous classes for boys,
girls and women are conducted. This settlement work
is not under the auspices of the Civic Club further than
the contribution of the use of the building therefor; but
the Club bespeaks for it a generous support.
BLOCK HOUSE The threatened removal or destruc-
1902 tion of the Block House in 1902,
against which the Pittsburgh Chap-
ter of Daughters of the American Revolution waged a
most vigorous and successful campaign, aroused the in-
dignation of the various patriotic and local organiza-
tions, and the Civic Club among them protested against
the commercial inroads designed to obliterate the city's
most historical relic. This monument was later donated
by the owner of the property, Mrs. Mary E. Schenley,
to the Daughters of the American Revolution, and will
be preserved to the people of Pittsburgh for all time.
RAILROAD ORDINANCES A great effort was
1902 made to prevent the
passage of special rail-
road ordinances permitting the erection of freight sta-
tions and terminals at the "Point", followed a year later
Civic Club of Allegheny County 51
-by a spirited encounter with Councils upon the passage
of the ordinances permitting the erection of tracks on
Duquesne Way. These protests were entered, not only
for the purpose of preventing further congestion in this
portion of the city, but because it would forever destroy
any plan that might at some future date be adopted to
beautify the wharves and to utilize them as public
breathing spots for down-town residents, remote from
the public parks. Utilitarian considerations, complicated
by questions of expediency in the "compromise" with
the Pennsylvania Railroad whereby the latter's tracks
were forever removed from the disfigurement of Liberty
Avenue, nullified this agitation. (See Trains on Liberty
Street, 1904.)
LECTURES IN Wit'h the beginning of the year
PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1902, the Department of Educa-
1902 tion, Mrs. George H. Wilson,
Chairman, arranged a course of
lectures in the evenings in the public schools, most of
them illustrated by stereopticon slides. Following a lec-
ture by Prof. Charles Zeublin in March, a series of fifteen
were given, under the direction of Dr. Francis H. Wade.
These lectures were delivered in five schools, the 3rd
Ward, Allegheny, Thaddeus Stevens, Friendship, Wool-
slair, and Bane, in a series of one or more for three
weeks in each school. The great success of this under-
taking was due to the interesting subjects and the valu-
able services of Dr. Wade, with Prof. Brashear, Dr. Hol-
land, Dr. McAllister and Rev. T. J. Leak.
LECTURES IN The enthusiasm and popular de-
PUBLIC SCHOOLS mand for a repetition of the
1903 series of lectures given the year
previous in the public schools
prompted the Educational Department, with Mrs. J. J.
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Covert, Chairman of the Committee, to give eighteen
more lectures during 1903. Dr. F. H. Wade, Mr. Fred-
erick S. Webster, Dr. Breed, Mr. Robert McGonnigle,
Drs. Holmes Miller and G. W. Allyn, most efficiently-
contributed to this ccTurse w^hich was arranged in groups
of six schools — the Franklin, So'ho, Woolslair, Bane,
Allen and the 5th Ward, Allegheny, with three lectures
in each school. The Civic Club and the various School
Directors were hig^hly gratified with the results of the
lectures, the attendance, character of the people and evi-
dent pleasure of the auditors. This work was discon-
tinued after the second year, but in 1909 was again re-
sumed in connection with the social center work of the
Pittsburgh Playgrounds Association.
TENEMENT HOUSE While the Civic Club almost
REFORM from its inception 'had been
1903 deeply interested in, and seek-
ing a solution of, the problem
of the tenement dweller that is presented in all large com-
munity centers and especially in Pittsburgh, it was not
until December of 1902 that the first practical remedial
step was taken by the Club Tenement Committee, of
which Mrs. Franklin P. lams was at that time made
Chairman, by the decision to strike at the root of the
evil and make it imperative t'hat all tenement buildings
conform to certain specified sanitary requirements.
Philadelphia already had a meagre tenement law,
passed in 1895, which it was thought desirable not to
tamper with at that time. It was therefore deemed ad-
visable to present a Tenement House Bill relating to
cities of the second class only — prominent Philadel-
phians undertaking to enlist the legislative support of
their members, which they did.
With the comprehensive tenement laws of New
York and Chicago and the invaluable suggestions of
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' Mr. Lawrence Vieller and Mr. Hector Mcintosh of
Philadelphia, (a very active member of the Octavia
Hill Tenement Association w^ho for many months was
in active correspondence with the Club Chairman) as
guides, the Committee consisting of Mrs. lams, Mr. E.
Z. Smith, and Hon. S. S. Mehard drew up two measures
which now, as supplemented by one or two ordinances,
constitute Pittsburgh's Tenement House Laws. It was
deemed wise to make these Bills amendments to the
Bureaus of Health and Building Inspection laws, and
two Bills were therefore prepared, one relating to each
Bureau. These Bills were presented simultaneously in
the Senate by William A. Magee and in the House by
J. P. Moore, in February, 1903, and so expeditiously
pressed that they were passed in March, and signed by
the Governor in April.
Immediately following the signing of the Bills, the
Committee secured the passage of a councilmanic ordi-
nance providing two Tenement House Inspectors, this
small number being requested because it was after the
annual appropriation had been made and only a limited
amount of money was available for salaries.
In recognition of the work of the Club, Mayor
Hays requested it to name one of these two Inspectors,
and it was fortunate in being able to name Dr. Luba
N. Robin, who was made Chief Inspector by Director
of Public Safety Harry Moore, and by him sent to New
York to study its system of tenement inspection. As
that city had a tenement house force approximating two
hundred, and she had but one assistant. Dr. Robin
could naturally make small headway toward establish-
ing a similiar system. She, however, accomplished very
wonderful results in the way of developing a plan, in-
specting and listing in the first year over '),200 houses,
of which 250 were found to be tenements under the law
(i. e., a house in which three or more families live and
cook on the premises), most of them violating the pro-
visions thereof.
54 Civic Club of Allegheny County
At approximately the same time as the passage of
the Pittsburgh ordinance for the appointment of two
inspectors, the committee had a similar ordinance passed
in Allegheny, which ordinance was most unexpectedly
accompanied by a resolution stipulating that the Civic
Club s'hould name the inspectors, which, ho\vever, it
did not do. This gave to what is now Greater Pitts-
burgh four such officers — an absurdly small number for
so large a territory.
At the beginning of 1904 the Club committee asked
the Committee on Appropriations to provide for ten
more inspectors, later modifying the request to two, but
lacking the support of both Mayor Hays and Director
Moore, the request was not granted.
In 1905 Director Moore urged the Club not to pre-
sent an ordinance for more inspectors, stating that out
of the appropriations asked for by him that year he
would be able to pay two more inspectors, which he
deemed sufficient at that time. The Club reluctantly
yielded the point, and did not itself present an ordinance
asking for more inspectors until after the failure of the
Finance Committee of Councils to recommend a specific
sum therefor in the appropriation for 1905. Following
this, early in the same year, the Club asked for three
additional inspectors and in March an ordinance was
passed providing for two ; which ordinance Mayor
Hays — still unconvinced that Pittsburgh's tenement dis-
tricts needed inspecting — promptly vetoed. It was now
necessary to present the ordinance again to the new
Councils, which was done and the ordinance was
again passed in the early summer of 1906, thus giv-
ing to what is now Greater Pittsburgh six inspectors.
With the new city administration of 1906 came Dr.
J. F. Edwards as Superintendent of the Bureau of
Health, who, as soon as he grasped the full magnitude
and the gravity of Pittsburgh's tenement problem, thor-
oughly systematized the work (especially when given
more inspectors) and inaugurated an aggressive cam-
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paign of betterment. He, however, quite earnestly op-
posed the Club's urging Councils to provide for an in-
cieaed force of inspectors in the appropriation for 1907.
The Club had been conducting a very energetic and
comprehensive campaign of education as to the necessity
for more inspectors and finally won Controller Larkin
to its views and fully believed the time ripe for the
attempt, and with the greatest reluctance refrained
from asking it.
In the fall of that year, stirred to action by a start-
lingly plain statement as to conditions in Pittsburgh's
tenement districts by that most fearless and intrepid
social worker, William H. Matthews, of Kingsley
House, the Chamber of Commerce made a vigorous and
successful campaign for more inspectors and in the win-
ter (1907-8) the force was increased from six to thirteen
and has since been further added to until it now num-
bers seventeen, w'hich is still considered inadequate,
even though the tenement inspectors and sanitary in-
spectors to a large extent co-operate in their work.
Reverting again to other efforts : the Committee
made numerous attempts to secure the co-operation of
other organizations, as well as the public at large, and
in the spring of 1905 invited representatives of all the
philanthropic associations and c'hurches and a number of
leading citizens to a conference with a two-fold purpose :
firstly, to secure more inspectors to enforce the laws we
already had (which were never intended by the Civic
Club Committee as other than temporary or tentative),
and secondly, to secure co-operation in securing proper
data and preparing a code therefrom for submission to
the next Legislature. The meeting was largely attended
and apparently most enthusiastic, and resulted in the ap-
pointment of two committees ; one for the first named
object, comprised principally of Civic Club members,
which continued its campaign for more inspectors, the
other composed of gentlemen so eminent and busy as to
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find it impossible to fulfill the duties of their appoint-
ment.
In the fall of 1906, the Committee made another
effort to secure co-operation, and arranged for a confer-
ence between Mayor Guthrie and representatives from
the Bureau of Health, Chamber of Commerce, Kingsley
House, Columbian Council, Pittsburgh Playgrounds
Association, Allegheny County Medical Association, the
Civic Club and perhaps a few others. At this conference
the Mayor was asked to advocate the appointment of a
councilmanic commission to investigate tenement condi-
tions and draw up a comprehensive bill for the Legisla-
ture of 1907. The suggestion did not appeal to him,
however, and the matter was dropped. But the Club
Committee, consisting at that time of Mrs. lams and
Mr. E. Z. Smith, in consultation with Dr. Edwards of
the Bureau of Health, Superintendent Dies, of the Bu-
reau of Building Inspection, and Superintendent Carver,
of the Bureau of Plumbing Inspection, revised the laws
of 1903, adding such amendments thereto as their appli-
cation had demonstrated as most desirable — one of the
important additions requiring registration by owners of
tenements of all such properties, together with name
and address of the owner or his agent. This amended
Bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Langfitt on
January 29th, 1907, quickly passed by that body and
sent to the House, where no opposition was anticipated,
but it was unexpectedly held up in the House Commit-
tee, and, by the time the cause was ascertained and re-
moved, the session was nearly over and the measure did
not reach a vote. Some months afterward the city ad-
ministration secured the passage of an ordinance requir-
ing registration by owners, which has proven of great
value in the work.
The attempt to secure amendments was not re-
newed in 1909 — it being deemed wise to wait the pas-
sage of a general revision of the Building Laws of the
city. But the Chairman of the Committee noted the in-
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troduction of a Bill modifying the requirement that all
tenements over three stories high must be fireproof, —
an amendment that did not strike the Superintendent of
Building Inspection and some other city officials as
dangerous, but which was declared by many leading con-
tractors and builders who were interviewed to be a very
decided backward step. Several of these men volun-
teered to go to Harrisburg and oppose its passage, but
quieter means were found to suppress the measure.
The Committee (Mr. Cornelius D. Scully acting as
Chairman) in the winter of 1910 again called a confer-
ence of interested associations with a view of drafting a
Bill for the session of 1911, but learning that a Sanitary
Code was in process of preparation by the city, which,
if passed by Councils, might obviate the necessity of
further laws, postponed action until such Code should
be presented to and acted upon by Councils.
Again chronologically reverting : Dr. Robin, the
first Chief Inspector named by the Club was married in
March, 1905, and the Club was requested by Director
Moore to name 'her successor, and Mrs. Samuel W. Har-
per was appointed and served efficiently for two years,
when she resigned. The Civic Club was again asked to
suggest a chief inspector — this time by Director Ridge-
way, who had succeeded Director Moore. For several
months Mrs. lams endeavored to find a suitable party
for the position (every applicant being referred by the
Department to her), but was unable unqualifiedly to
recommend anyone who was willing to accept the place
at the salary paid — $100 a month — and so reported to
the department, whereupon Mr. Steineck, who had
proven a very capable inspector and had been acting as
temporary chief during the efifort to find another, was
made chief inspector in the late summer of 1907, which
position he still fills.
During the four years that the ofifice was held by
the appointee suggested by the Civic Club, the c'hief
inspector was in almost daily conference with the Chair-
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man of the Club Committee, and full statements of the
progress of the work were made monthly to the Board.
After the resignation of Mrs. Harper, the Club did not
keep in sudh close touch with the administration of the
law, and it was no longer necessary that it should — the
system being by that time well established and under
the personal supervision of Dr. Edwards, who, however,
continued of his own accord to make full reports to the
Club at frequent intervals. After the change of the city
administration in the spring of 1909 and the transfer-
ence of Dr. Edwards to another Bureau, no reports have
been sent to the Club, doubtless because the requests
therefor have not been strongly pressed. It is, however,
certainly due to the public that frequent reports of the
work of this and other city departments be printed and
distributed — a duty in whic'h the City of Pittsburgh is
and always has been singularly and inexcusably remiss.
Pittsburgh still has a tenement problem — a problem
that is particularly difficult because of the thousands of
old buildings that should be demolished ; a problem in
which one and two family houses figure as largely as
those legally termed "tenements" ; a problem in which
both landlords and tenants are factors, and that demands
the help of men and women of wisdom for its solution.
That Pittsburgh has laws that would, if fully enforced,
go far toward the solution of that problem is due, more
than to any other thing, to the practical foresight, the
patience, tact and perserverance of Mrs. lams, who for
five or six years gave so unstintedly of her time and
strength to this work, and whose interest in and desire
for further and more radical betterment is unabated ;
and the Club desires to here record its appreciation of
her service in this cause.
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TRAVELING LIBRARIES In 1903 and 1904 an
1903 effort was made by a
committee under Mrs. S.
M. B. Hooker to establish Traveling Libraries for the
use of citizens in small towns. Every eft'ort was made
to have the small towns apply for the libraries, letters
were sent to representative citizens in the endeavor to
interest them and to invite them to attend the meetings,
held once every three weeks. Through Mrs, W. L.
Davis, a member of the committee, 50 volumes were se-
cured from the State Library at Harrisburg for Glen-
s'haw, Pa. This library was located at the public school,
and books distributed to the children at the discretion
of the principal and teachers. At the end of six months
the library was returned to Harrisburg. The next fall
a public library, which at this date numbers 1000, was
started by and continues under the jurisdiction of the
Glenshaw Civic Club.
FORESTRY The Forestry Committee under the De-
1904 partment of Art has been, since its in-
ception as part of the Civic Club work
in 1904, under the Chairmanship of Miss Helen Grimes.
It has been difficult and uphill work, its very beginning
overshadowed by the enormous amount of work that
could be done, and the lack of funds with which to start
it. Frequent reminders were sent by the Chairman to
the departments of both cities to enforce the law fining
drivers for permitting horses to injure the bark of trees
and urging them to employ some one to look after the
trees planted in the streets, protecting them from insect
pests and other enemies. In 1905 a number of very in-
teresting illustrated articles were written by Miss
Grimes and published in the daily and weekly news-
papers, showing not only how Pittsburg could be beau-
tified by trees planted in the streets, but also directing
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attention to the incongruous planting and the manner
in which street trees were pruned.
The Ghairman of this committee has most per-
sistenly preached the gospel of tree-planting and pres-
ervation, and encouraged the women's clubs to hold
yearly tree-plantings with appropriate ceremonies as
educative measures.
TRAINS ON A report of the number and
LIBERTY STREET time of trains crossing Liberty
1904 Avenue, at Market and Sixth,
from January 4th to 31st, 1904,
gives evidence that the Civic Club was taking part in
the agitation that led to the removal of the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks from Liberty Avenue. The record shows
that seventy-five trains passed the above mentioned cor-
ner between the hours of 8.15 A. M. and 6.15 P. M. dur-
ing that month.
The grade crossing was a matter for serious atten-
tion not only in Pittsburgh proper but in Allegheny,
and it was only after great pressure was brought to bear
upon the railroad companies and Councils that they
have been practically abolished. '
COURT HOUSE The Art Department was not
ALTERATIONS only keenly alive to the possi-
1904 bilities of beautifying the city by
the care and planting of trees,
but as far back as 1904 at an open meeting urged upon
the County Commissioners, who had proposed to en-
large the County Court House, that any exterior altera-
tions would likely destroy or at least detract from the
artistic beauty and simplicity of this building. Each
suggestion that has been made by various architects or
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by the Commissioners to enlarge the Court House by
adding anywhere from three to forty stories has been
met with a storm of opposition not only from the Civic
Club but the architects' associations and numerous other
clubs and individuals. Be it said to the great credit of
the Commissioners of 1910 that they have solved the
problem in a most satisfactory manner from an artistic
and economic standpoint by deciding to purchase an
additional adjacent square for the proposed improve-
ment.
COMMITTEE ON In the past five years the fight
TUBERCULOSIS against tuberculosis 'has made
1905 wonderful progress in Pitts-
burgh. At the time the Civic
Club took up the matter, there was no other organiza-
tion in the city doing any special work directed toward
the prevention and elimination of this dread disease.
The Anti-Tuberculosis Committee of the Civic Club
was appointed in 1905, with Dr. T. W. Grayson, Chair-
man, and found immediate work in appearing before the
appropriations committee of council and urging that
$5,000 be given for the establishment of a tuberculosis
camp in connection with the City Poor Farm at Mar-
shalsea. The number of cases then was found to be
alarming, and the immediate necessity for some remedial
measure imperative. The Committee's activity was re-
warded by the passage of the ordinance. Through t'he
courtesy of Dr. J. P. Shaw, then Director of Charities,
this committee visited Marshalsea in May, 1905, and
assisted in the selection of the site for the "Hill Camp"
at the City Farm. One well equipped wooden building
was completed as soon as possible. This pavillion is
only for males, and has a capacity of some eighteen or
twenty. Following this successful effort, the Committee
endorsed the request of Dr. Shaw for an additional
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$5,000, which was granted for similar work among the
female patients at Marshalsea.
This committee has also been more or less active
in other tuberculosis work in Pittsburgh. Its members
took an active part in the formation of "the Pittsburgh
Society for the Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculo-
sis," and through the efforts of the chairman, a tuber-
culosis clinic was opened for patients at the Pittsburgh
Free Dispensary, and conducted for four months.
At the instance of one of the resident workers at
the Columbian Settlement House, a tuberculosis exhibit
was brought to Pittsburgh in May, 1907, under the aus-
pices of the Pittsburgh Society for the Prevention and
Treatment of Tuberculosis assisted by the Columbian
Council and the Civic Club. The Civic Club was the
headquarters with an executive secretary, employed to
arrange this exhibit. It was the first large educational
measure that was undertaken in this work in our com-
munity, and many thousands visited Old City Hall in
the ten days it was there. Later the Columbian Settle-
ment, Woods Run, South Side, West End, and Wilkins-
burg in turn housed the exhibit.
In its desire not to everlap or duplicate the work of
the new Tuberculosis League which started at about this
time, the committee during the next year was not so ac-
tive. Plans, however, were being made that developed
a new field for action. (See Open-Air Schools, 1909.)
MEDICAL INSPECTION Among the "significant
1905 facts" noted by Gulick
and Ayres in their "Medi-
cal Inspection of Schools" is an extract from the Memo-
randum of the British Board of Education which states
Medical Inspection "seeks to secure ultimately for every
child, normal or defective, conditions of life compatible
with that full and effective development of its organic
functions, its special senses, and its mental powers,
which constitute a true education".
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In the earlier period of the Civic Club, as far back
as 1898, the Educational Department advised the neces-
sity for medical inspection in the schools, but it was not
until seven years later that any active steps were taken
to give the school children necessary medical attention
in many cases not received through the home, to insure
the physical development of the child commensurate
with the education it is expected to receive.
In November, 1905, the Department of Education of
the Civic Club initiated the campaign for medical inspec-
tion in the schools through its newly elected chairman,
Mrs. William Macrum, to whose active, faithful and effi-
cient services the ultimate success of this movement was
largely due.
A committee was at once appointed to interview
school directors, who in most cases heartily agreed that
medical inspection would be of great benefit to the
schools ; that a large percentage of the children in the
public schools had some definite physical defect; that a
considerable portion of these children were one, two or
even three years behind in their grades because of these
defects ; that a large proportion of epidemics and the
spread of communicable diseases emanated from the
schools ; but who added that they had no funds provided
for the purpose.
The committee then decided to enlist the sympathy
of the medical profession in their plan, and were grati-
fied beyond their hopes by the generous offer of several
physicians to give their services without remuneration
until the system should be fairly established. In the
mean time the Chairman of the Department had in-
quired of the City Physician as to the advisability of be-
ginning the work at once as an experiment, and he had
expressed his satisfaction with the plan, and promised
his co-operation at some future time.
The first inspection took place in December, 1905,
at the Bellefield School, Dr. Wholey, who later served
as Chairman of the Committee, being the physician in
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charge; Mrs. J. L. Francis, a member of the committee
from the Civic Club, acting as his aid.
The report of this first inspection, read at the
next meeting of the committee, deely impressed all w^ho
heard it and convinced them that the introduction of
medical inspection would involve no serious difficulty.
The Allegheny County Medical Association then offered
to appoint physicians to inspect all the schools, provided
the consent of the respective school boards could be ob-
tained by the members of the Civic Club committee. Let-
ters were accordingly sent by Mrs. Macrum to fifty-one
schools boards, including schools in Pittsburgh, Alle-
gheny and the adjoining suburbs. Favorable answers
were received from about half of the school boards, and
Dr. Matheny, as chairman of the committee appointed
by the Allegheny County Medical Association to co-
operate with the Club, had the work begun at once in
several schools. Twenty-four schools were inspected by
the following physicians. Dr. W. F. Donaldson — Grant
School; Dr. Alice R. Evans— North School; Dr. J. P.
Hegarty — Hancock School ; Dr. R. V. Swanton — Ral-
ston School ; Dr. P. W. Bushong — Moorhead School ;
Dr. J. M. Russell— Springfield School; Dr. M. Chess—
O'Hara School ; Dr. J. G. Burke — Minersville School ;
Dr. F. A. Rhodes— Minersville No. 2; Dr. F. A. Holt—
Minersville No. 3; Dr. W. H. Glynn— Minersville No.
4; Dr. W. H. Ewing— Minersville No. 5; Dr. C. C.
Wholey— Bellefield School; Dr. B. B. Wood— Soho
School ; Dr. J. J. Schill — Lawrence School ; Dr. A. Mc-
Kibben — Andrews School ; Dr. F. Kenworthy — Wool-
slair School; Dr. G. W. Rail— Lincoln School; Dr. W.
H. Rodgers — Lemington Sc'hool ; Dr. Ralph Dufifey —
Larimer School; Dr. H. M. Hall, Shakespeare School,
of East Liberty District; Dr. A. F. B. Morris— Home-
wood School; Dr. C. B. McAboy— Belmar ; Dr. E. J.
Thompson — Fifth Ward, Allegheny,
In order that the doctors might work with system,
and that parents and teachers might be enabled to aid
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them, in the endeavor to safeguard the children against
epidemic and other diseases, several thousand copies of
"Instructions to Teachers", "Letters to Parents", and
inspection cards to be filled so as to designate the par-
ticular disease or defect of each patient and and also test
cards to detect deficient eyesight, were printed at the
expense of the Civic Club. These were kept in the
office of the Club, within convenient reach of the doc-
tors interested; and were used by them for their visits
of inspection to the schools.
The Civic Club committee, after two years' pioneer
educative work of systematized inspection in 24 schools,
the introduction of a Bill in the 1907 Legislature, that
failed to pass, and an additional year of constructive
work in preparation for the presentation of another bill
it expected to introduce in 1909, prepared a petition and
appeared before the Educational Commission appointed
by Governor Stuart at its first meeting held in Pitts-
burgh in May, 1908, and urged that it embody in its
School Code a provision for medical inspection in
schools. Conferences were held and correspondence
conducted on the subject, which resulted in the Com-
mission embodying in its Code the committee's provi-
sions, with the exception that medical inspection was
made mandatory in large cities and permissive in smaller
school districts.
In December, 1908, the Civic Club committee
called and held a conference of representatives from the
Allegheny County Medical Society, the Bureau of
Health, the Central Board of Education and the Princi-
pals and Teachers Associations, at which time a draft of
the committee's medical inspection provision was pre-
sented and a joint letter sent to the Commission urging
it to make medical inspection mandatory in large cities
and in large communities adjacent, instead of permis-
sive as the Commission intended. The commission ac-
ceded only so far as large cities were concerned.
The School Code was so badlv mutilated bv the
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Legislature of 1909, however, that Governor Stuart re-
fused to sign it, and this second attempt to secure a
medical inspection law^ failed. In the mean time our city-
was so fortunate as to have Dr. J. F. Edwards appointed
Superintendent of the Bureau of Health, and he, fully-
recognizing the importance of such inspection, suggested
that the supervision of this volunteer inspection, and the
expenses etc. connected therewith be turned over to his
Bureau, with the hope and expectation that the city
would shortly authorize it to be properly installed in all
the schools at the City's expense. The committee ac-
ceeded to this request, and shared Dr. Edwards' disap-
pointment when it was finally decided that it would not
be feasible at that time (Winter 1907-08).
After the failure to secure through the Legislature a
mandatory law, the Civic Club committee, being favor-
able to medical inspection either under the direction of
the school authorities or the Bureau of Health, exerted
its influence in both directions, and therefore early in
the fall of 1909 waited upon Mayor Magee to ascertain
his views and urge his co-operation, and also communi-
cated with Dr. E. R. Walters of the Department of
Health in relation to this matter. About the same time
a sub-committee went before the Central Board of Edu-
cation, realizing that while that body had the power to
appoint medical inspectors only for the High Schools,
each school board being absolutely a power unto itself,
the example of its adoption by the Central Board would
give more encouragement to the individual boards. The
matter at this meeting was referred to the finance com-
mittee.
Beginning with November, 1909, a more active cam-
paign was started to bring the matter before the in-
dividual boards of directors of public schools. Letters
were written to the presidents of the school boards re-
questing an audience for a representative of the Civic
Club to present a practical working scheme for medical
inspection. (Of this number, nine already had regularly
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appointed physicians and one other immediately in-
stalled the work — in almost all cases a direct result of
the volunteer inspection). Answers granting the re-
quests were received from 23 schoolboards, and repre-
sentatives of the Club were sent. Audiences listened
to their arguments with interest. Opinions favorable to
medical inspection were expressed by a large number of
the individual members of the boards. In every case it
was either promised or implied that further considera-
tion would be given the subject. At the end of Decem-
ber, 1909, it was learned that the Department of Health
was considering the adoption of a system of inspection
in all the public schools. In pursuance of this policy
the several school boards were advised by the Depart-
ment of Health of its proposed institution of medical
inspection and were given assurance that the adminis-
tration was prepared to proceed with the matter as
rapidly as possible, and the Civic Club was requested to
desist from its efforts in this behalf. The committee
therefore notified the school boards of the assurance
given that medical inspection would be instituted by the
city, which system if efficiently installed would accom-
plish the purpose of the committee, and that, deeming it
inexpedient and inadvisable to further urge its adoption
upon the school boards severally, the Club would dis-
continue its efforts until such time as the Department
of Health had a reasonable opportunity to install the
system.
In the spring of 1910 an appropriation of $30,000.00
was included in the budget of the Department of Health
for 37 medical inspectors. Following a civil service ex-
amination these appointments and assignments were
made and under the direction of the chief medical in-
spector. Dr. H. B. Burns, class-room inspection has been
included in the regular routine of the public school
work.
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CHILD LABOR Legislation prescribing how long a
1905 child shall work, when and where
and under what circumstances, is of
comparatively very recent date in any of the States, and
Pennsylvania has probably been slower to respond to
the call for reform than most of her sisters.
Among the first attempts to pass reformative or
restrictive legislation was that of 1905. At this session
of the Legislature a bill was presented providing,
among other things, that in certain specified occupa-
tions, a child should not be employed until he was four-
teen (an earlier enactment having fixed the age at 12),
that working certificates should not, as heretofore, be
issued by magistrates and notaries, but should be issued
by factory mspectors and school authorities only, and
'that an educational test should be required of each child.
A vigorous campaign was waged in both ends of
the State — in this end by the Civic Club ; Mrs. F. P.
lams, as the Legislative Chairman of the Club,
by her well-directed, systematic energy carried on
the work not only in this but in every successive
campaign in a most effective and vigorous man-
ner, and her ofTice became the headquarters for
many interesting meetings between legislators, fac-
tory inspectors and representatives of different associa-
tions familiar with conditions, such as Kingsley House
and the Columbian Settlement, etc. Members of the
Legislature from this district were thus interested in
the cause ; letters were written to all who could not be
seen personally ; Miss Kate C. McKnight, President of
the Club, went to Harrisburg to watch the progress of
the Bill there. The Civic Club committee, decidedly
active by this time, arranged a mass meeting which was
held March 11, 1905, chief among the speakers being
Mr. Owen Lovejoy, Secretary of the National Child
Labor Association, and Mrs. Florence Kelly of the Con-
sumers League. The meeting was very large and en-
thusiastic, many manufacturers or their representatives
Civic Club of Allegheny County 69
were present and took part in the discussion, rendering
the proceedings somewhat lively by their criticisms of
the project and engaging in personal tilts with the legis-
lative Chairman.
The result of this campaign was the final passage
of the Bill. Later, however, the Courts decided that
some of the provisions of the measure were unconstitu-
tional, but a very distinct gain was left in the advanced
age limit from 12 to 14 years.
SCHOLARSHIPS In the fall of 1905 after this provi-
1905 sion become a law Miss Torrens,
one of the deputy factory inspect-
ors, reported among others several children working under
the regular age limit, upon w'hose small earnings a fam-
ily was largely dependent. Through Mrs. Herbert Du
Puy, one of the interested members of the Civic Club, a
scholarship fund of good proportion was started, to
which the John Hart Chapter of the Children of the
Revolution and the American Federation of Labor con-
tributed. Two boys and one girl were kept in school,
and given their regular vacation as well, for a period
covering nearly two years, the equivalent of their
weekly salary being paid to their mothers.
CHILD LABOR In 1907 two Bills were presented
1907 embodying the same general princi-
ples for which the advocates of
child labor regulations were contending, known as the
Dempsey and Townsend Bills. In their essentials these
Bills were the same (and very similar to that later
passed in 1909), and the Pennsylvania Child Labor Com-
mittee of Philadelphia, the State Federation, and the
Civic Club of Allegheny County decided to support the
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Townsend Bill. Thereupon followed a campaign which
has gone down in legislative history as one of the most
remarkable in its annals. There was more general ac-
tivity in this section of the State than in the eastern,
though Mr. Nearing, for the Philadelphia committee,
and his assistants did yeoman service. Mrs. lams, who
in the interim 'had been busily engaged in assisting the
eastern part of the State in drafting more advanced legis-
lation, again directed the committee of the Civic Club
which in turn invited the associations likely to be inter-
ested to co-operate. The Teachers' Association, the
Principals' Association, the Pittsburgh Playgrounds As-
sociation, the Consumers' League, several labor organ-
izations, two or three Boards of Trade, Catholic and
Hebrew Associations, Twentieth Century Club, Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution and many in-
dividuals joined, and a veritable whirlwind cam-
paign followed. Thousands of letters and tele-
grams were sent advocating the passage of the
Townsend Bill and protesting against the Hapgood or
Delaney "Administration" Bill (which had been pre-
sented as an amendment to the Factory Laws) ; minis-
ters were asked to preach upon the subject and a con-
stant lobbying force was kept at Harrisburg; Prof.
Anthony, Miss McKnight, Mr. Fernald, Miss Kennard,
Miss Grimes, Mrs. Ammon and others going from Pitts-
burgh. To awaken an intelligent interest in this matter
throughout this vicinity another public meeting was
held by the Club on March 9, 1907, wihen Mr. Lovejoy
of N. Y., Mr. Nearing and Miss Sanville of Philadel-
phia and many others spoke. Previous to this the ex-
penses involved had been met entirely by the Civic Club,
but following this meeting twenty-eight organizations
joined in the work and the majority of this number con-
tributed toward the expenses incurred for printing, post-
age, and traveling expenses.
The fight waxed fast and furious up to the very
last day of the Legislature, and, while the Townsend Bill
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failed to pass, so many amendments were engrafted
upon Delaney's Factory Bill that it was withdrawn and
no Bill passed at this session. An important forward
step was taken, however, in the passage of a Bill rais-
ing the compulsory education limit at which a child
may stop school to go to work, from 13 to 14 years.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY The team-work of the
CHILD LABOR Pittsburgh workers had
ASSOCIATION proved so satisfactory in
1907 this campaign, that the
Civic Club decided to
effect a permanent association for this section. In July
of 1907 the Allegheny County Child Labor Association
was organized and Prof. John W. Anthony chosen as its
first President. Thereafter the principal work was carried
on through this Association, the Civic Club, however,
being an affiliated working member, again assisted in
the campaign of 1909. The history would not be complete
without noting that this campaign, whidh was also re-
markable for its vigor and able management, resulted
in the passage of an Act which in the main is a very
satisfactory one, its essentials being:
1. No child under 14 shall work in factories, stores,
mines, etc.
2. Documentory proof of age must be furnished.
3. Working certificates can be issued only by the
sdhool authorities.
4. Ag-e limit in bituminous coal mines raised from
12 to 14 years.
5. Maximum hours per day reduced from 12 to 10,
and per week from 60 to 58.
6. That no boy under sixteen or girl under 18
shall work before 6 A. M. or after 9 P. M., with glass
house and messenger boy exceptions.
The friends of the measures were disappointed that
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in order to secure the foregoing provisions it was again
necessary to compromise with the glass men and make
an exception, whereby boys between the ages of 14 and
16 may worlc all night in any business that is continuous
in its processes. This exception, unfortunately, while not
intended to include any save glass-house boys, was so
worded that it was later found to permit all-night work
by boys of similiar age in messenger service. It is the
intention to continue the campaign in the 1911 Legisla-
ture to secure prohibition of sudh night work.
DOWN-TOWN LIBRARIES The Educational De-
1905 partment was a most
active section during
the year of 1905, and, in addition to the work already
accomplished, was studying the question and advocating
the institution of sectional night schools. Through the
press and conferences with merchants, the attention of
the public was called to the need of a down-town
branch of the Carnegie Library. Later on this was ac-
complished through a call station located on the first
floor of Kaufmanns' store. This later had to be aban-
doned, however, because the transportation of the books
to and from the library became a stupendous task, the
library 'having no vehicle of its own for this purpose. It
was the intention of the library authorities to establish
another down-town branch with proper delivering fa-
cilities, but the reduction of the appropriation from
Councils made this impossible.
CONVENTIONS In December of 1905, Hon. Wil-
1905 Ham M. Kennedy and Mr. Charles
B. Price, representing the Civic
Club, attended the National Convention on Immigration
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held in New York, upon appointment by Governor
Pennypacker.
SUBWAY Improved transportation facilities have for
1905 a number of years demanded and received
the attention of the Club, and a deep inter-
est has naturally been taken in all proposed plans for a
subway as a possible means of relieving congestion.
Governor Pennypacker recognized the interest of the
Club by inviting it to send representatives to a meeting
held in Harrisburg; at the annual meeting of 1906 an
address was made upon the subject, and at various times
members of the committee appointed have participated
in discussions before Councils and elsewhere.
STATE LEGISLATION In addition to the Child
1905 Labor Bills introduced in
the Legislature of 1905, the
Civic Club endorsed, by letter and interview, the Mc-
Elroy Bill amending the Juvenile Court Laws ; Mause
Bill providing for establishment of Parental Schools for
Habitual Truants ; two Bills for the establishment of
sanitariums for consumptives; the Riley Bill abolishing
capital punishment; and a Bill for the registration of
trained nurses.
GROUPING OF As the Civic Club has always
PUBLIC BUILDINGS been in sympathy with the
1906 proposals looking toward the
grouping of public buildings
on some commanding site, it was resolved to indorse
the plans which the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects 'had prepared for such a group
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around a plaza to be laid out on the "hump," extending
from the Court House to Sixth Avenue. Accordingly a
committee was appointed to second the efforts to have
these plans considered, and, if possible, adopted by
Councils.
In May, 1906, the Civic Club united with the Pitts-
burgh Chapter, American League of Architects, in hav-
ing a lecture given in Carnegie Hall by Mr. Albert Kel-
sey, of Philadelphia, on "A Pittsburgh Possible", show-
ing what a magnificent city might be built 'here, instead
of the haphazard conglomeration which now appears
within the embrace of our three great rivers.
THE SURVEY In January, 1907, the Charities and
1907 Commons of New York, desiring to
publish a special Pittsburgh edition,
through Mr. Paul Kellogg, asked that the Civic Club
help meet the expense of this publication by a donation
to cover the detailed investigation dealing with poverty.
Miss McKnight, then President of the Club, was
very enthusiastic over the plan and appointed Miss Edna
Meeker as Chairman of a committee for this special
work. Miss Louisa W. Knox volunteered her services
as special investigator. Poverty, its phases, its preven-
tion ; charitable agencies, their methods, subsidy and
sources of revenue, were to be the specific matters in-
vestigated. Mr. Kellogg having been informed of the
Civic Club's assistance through a special investigator,
further suggested that a donation for expert survey, such
as traveling and hotel expenses of heads of the depart-
ments supervisiing this work, would be appreciated. In
response to this suggestion the Civic Club contributed
$50.00. The original plan was never put in operation,
for the work, once begun, developed such proportions
that the plan to embrace the whole report in one edition
of the magazine was abandoned. The Russell Sage
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Foundation assumed the financial obligations and ulti-
mately stood sponsor for the project.
GREATER PITTSBURGH Possibly the greatest
1907 cause for public rejoicing
in 1907 was the fact that
the actual consolidation of Pittsburgh and Allegheny
was effected in December of that year through laws
passed at a special session of the Legislature in April,
1906, voted upon in the two cities in June of the same
} ear and sustained by the Supreme Court in 1907. The
contest over this progressive step was long drawn out
and the Civic Club was proud to have been among the
other civic bodies that co-operated, and sent representa-
tives to Harrisburg to speak in favor of the consolida-
tion of the twin cities.
INCREASED GAS RATES The Civic Club sent
1907 representatives to Har-
risburg when Mayor
Guthrie lifted his hand against the unwarranted raise in
the price of gas, and stood ready to serve in the best
course deemed advisable to pursue against this
monopoly.
STATE LEGISLATION The beginning of the year
1907 1907 ushered in the legisla-
tive session in Harris-
burg, which incidentally increased the Club's activities
and directed its energies toward securing better legisla-
tion for Child Labor, to safeguard the interests of the
thousands of children of the State of Pennsylvania;
Compulsory Education, an important measure to har-
monize compulsory education law with factory law;
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Civil Service Reform; Free Library Commission, to
send school libraries into districts which had no access
to public libraries ; regulation of sweat-shop work ;
protection of children from neglect, cruelty and
abandonment; better Juvenile Court legislation;
Juvenile Court Fee Bills; limited probationary system
for convicts, to provide a humane and wise system of
probation for convicts in penitentiaries which would
give them a chance to "try again" for a better life;
Anti-Expectoration ; regulation of billboards ; two
Bills introduced by the Civic Club, one for Free Medical
Inspection in Schools, and one revising the Tenement
House Laws for cities of the second class, (both of
which were lost) ; and Camp Schools for Foreigners, to
provide for establishment of schools where foreigners
may receive instruction in English.
FEDERAL LEGISLATION In Washington the
1907 Civic Club urged the
passage of a National
Pure Food Bill, and joined with the American Civic
Association in the fight to save Niagara Falls from com-
mercial vandalism. The latter, while regulated to a
small extent, is by no means a settled question.
MISS MCKNIGHT'S The death of Miss Kate Cas-
DEATH satt McKnight on August 15th,
1907 1907, came as a crushing blow
not only to the Civic Club,
whose President she had been since 1902, but to the en-
tire community.
It has not been possible in the foregoing history of
the Civic Club to show the part which she, as one of its
founders, took in each individual movement ; but she
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gave freely of her time, her ability, her strength ; and
her purse was open, not only for her public works, but
for many private charities.
Her patience with troublesome questions, her self-
denial and heroism, her cheerfulness, unselfishness,
charity and kindly thoughtfulness 'have left their imprint
upon the work which she promoted and fostered and
upon the workers with whom she came in contact and
who loved her.
Miss McKnight was especially fitted, by natural en-
dowment and special study, to foster all forms of civic
betterment and public education. Her high ideals,
patriotism, devotion, loyalty and faith in the city which
her forefathers had founded formed the underlying
principles of her life work, and proved the altar upon
which she laid her life as a sacrifice.
HOME FOR In order to cover the problem
TRUANT CHILDREN dealing- with the truant child
1907 as taken up by the Educa-
tional Department of the
Civic Club, it is necessary to go back five years. At this
time in Western Pennsylvania there were but two insti-
tutions for the care of delinquent boys and girls : Mor-
ganza, the reform school (a State institution), and the
Boys' School at Oakdale, which preferred to take only
homeless and more or less dependent white boys; there-
fore there was no place to send the incorrigible child or
habitual truant save to the former institution. A com-
mittee with Dr. Francis Henry Wade as Chairman was
appointed in January 1003 to ascertain if any further
legislation would be necessary to enable it to have
truant children committed to its care in a 'house of de-
tention, if such a home should be established by the
Civic Club. It was found that additional legislation
was not necessary according to a legislative enactment.
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known as "An Act to provide for the attendance, and
for reports of attendance of the children in the schools
of this Commonwealth". In view of this fact the Chair-
man advocated the establishment of a home for the com-
mitment of such truant children as were being sent to
Morganza. The detail matter connected with this move-
ment covered a long period. In included the collection
of data covering the number of truant children sent to
the truant school, and the number of the habit-
ual or incorrigible truants sent to the reform
school. It included numberless interviews with
the boards of control and directors, truant officers,
etc. The investigation resulted in an effort to raise the
standard of the truant school and to assist the truant
officers to place the children in private homes. In 1905
the committee, with Mrs. J. P. O'Connor, Chairman,
again took up the investigation and was in turn followed
by a committee reorganized under Mrs. V. Matthews, to
consider the establishment of a truant school in Pitts-
burgh. A number of meetings were held, and the sub-
ject thoroughly discussed with various people and repre-
sentatives of several associations likely to be most inter-
ested, including the Juvenile Court Association, Central
Board of Education , the Principals' and Teachers' Asso-
ciations, Allegheny County Bar Association, City and
County Controllers, and County Commissioners. The
conclusion was finally reached that the need of our com-
munity was broader than could be served solely by a
truancy school. That there are quite a number of in-
corrigible truants who vex the school principals and
teachers was found to be true, but the number was not
so great as to justify the establishment of an expensive
school to meet that need alone. It developed, however,
while pursuing this subject, that there was quite an
imperative need for a training school for boys in our
community, to which the Juvenile Court might commit
incorrigible truants and other delinquent boys.
In 1908 this committee also took up with the proper
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authorities the possibility of securing the Allegheny-
City Poor-farm at Claremont, (it being rumored that it
might be abandoned upon the consolidation of the two
cities), for use as an industrial home for the children
who came under the care of the Juvenile Court. It was
learned that there was no immediate likelihood of any
change being made whereby the Poor-farm would be
used for any other purposes than at present.
The Truancy Committee, therefore, after carefully,
canvassing the entire subject, reported in September,
1908, to the Board of Directors of the Civic Club their
finding — that the greatest community need was for a
boys' training school to be established either by the
City, County or State.
The report of Mrs. Matthews' committee having
been considered and accepted by the Board of Directors
of the Civic Club, it appointed a steering committee to
use the information gathered by the Truancy Committee
and to take charge of the promotion of such a school.
The Truancy Committee merged with the above com-
mittee and the solution of the problem followed in the
years 1908 and 1909.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY With the creation of a
INDUSTRIAL AND steering committee which
TRAINING SCHOOL was to make definite plans
FOR BOYS for a 'home for boys of the
1908 Juvenile Court (including
incorrigible truants, delin-
quents, etc.,) Rev. R. M. Little was appointed Chair-
man in September, 1908. Discussion was at first cen-
tered upon the establishment of a State school, parental
as distinguished from penal in its type, to serve Alle-
gheny and surrounding counties, the board of nine mem-
bers to be appointed by the Governor. Finally, however,
it was decided to try to get a provision for such a school
incorporated into the School Code, then being prepared
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by the State School Commission. Accordingly a draft
of the plan for a training- school was sent to the Secre-
tary of the State Commission, Prof. George W. Phillips,
West Chester, Pa., for the Commission's consideration.
The subject was also discussed with Mr. D. B. Oliver,
the Pittsburg representative on that Commission, in per-
son. The School Commission declined to incorporate
this feature in the School Code, and this necessitated
the consideration of some other method of procedure.
Finally the committee unanimously decided to have
a Bill drafted applicable to Allegheny County, the board
of nine members to be appointed by the Common Pleas
Judges, which members in conjunction with the three
County Commissioners should establish the school, and
have it in immediate c'harge. The money for its. estab-
lishment and maintenance was to be provided by the
County.
When this plan for the school was fully decided
upon, a sub-committee, in conjunction with Mr. George
Alter, a member of the Civic Club and representative
from the Thirteenth Legislative District, redrafted the
subject matter into the form of a Bill, which after hearty
approval on the part of the committee, was introduced
into the House by Mr. Alter, under whose most skilful
management it passed both Houses as drafted, without
opposition, and was signed by Governor Stuart on May
1, 1909. Great credit is due to Representative Alter for
his masterly handling of this matter in the Legislature.
The text of the Bill, in brief, is a mandatory provi-
sion for the establis'hment of schools supplementary to
the school system of the Commonwealth in each county
having a population of 750,000 and not over 1,200,000;
said schools to be open the entire year, and established
on the cottage home plan, to be presided over by a
superintendent, trained in educational and social work ;
tlie buildings to be substantially constructed, provided
with baths, play-grounds, sleeping-rooms and kitchen ;
ample grounds to be provided for farming, dairying, and
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out-door recreation; and that as far as possible the men-
tal, moral, and physical welfare and advancement of the
children therein detained be adequately provided for.
The schools shall be established on farms, and managed
by the Board of Managers, nine of whom shall be ap-
pointed by the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas,
who with the County Commissioners shall constitute
said Board. The appropriation for this school to be paid
by the County, either by tax levy or by issue of bonds
as the County Commissioners shall deem wise. After
the law had been enacted, the Civic Club committee de-
cided that it would be entirely proper for a sub-com-
mittee from their number to wait upon the Board of
Judges. The Committee appraised the Judges of the
nature of the law, its pressing need and the importance*
of the early appointment of the Board of Managers. The
Board of Judges thereupon granted the sub-committee
a hearing in June, 1909, and within two weeks the Board
of Managers was appointed. As Chairman of the steer-
ing committee, Dr. Little was made a member of this
Board, as were also several other members of the Civic
Club.
Preliminary to formulating plans for the school, the
Board took hold of the enterprise with intelligence and
interest, and there is every reason to believe that in the
near future Allegheny County will have a training
school for delinquent boys, helpful to the boys, a credit
to the County and State and an honor to the Civic Club
which conceived and promoted the enterprise.
The School will be known as the Allegheny County
Industrial and Training School for Boys, and is to be
located at Thorn Hill, Marshall Township, Allegheny
and Butler Counties, on the Pittsburg, Butler and Har-
mony Railroad.
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REMOVAL OF The Social Science Depart-
PENITENTIARY meiit, under its wide-awake
1908 Chairman, Mrs. lams, learning
that the State Board of Char-
ities was discussing plans for improving the conditions
at the Western Penitentiary by the erection of new
buildings outside of Pittsburgh, immediately endorsed
the plan, through correspondence with the State Board
and recommended removal to a large site where not
only vegetables and other farm products could be raised,
but where tuberculous patients could be cared for apart
from the other prisoners. This movement has gained
many supporters, chief among whom is the progressive
Warden of the institution, Mr. John Francies, and bids
fair to result in the enabling legislation during the
present session.
PURE MILK In May, 1908, one of the open meetings
1908 of the Educational Department was
devoted solely to the Milk Commission
and its efforts to supply pure milk to the people of
Pittsburgh. In order to make more forceful the value
of encouraging this movement, which the Civic Club
most heartily endorsed, it co-operated by calling the
attention of the members to its importance through in-
teresting addresses by members of the Commission with
illustrated charts upon the subject.
CIVIC EXHIBIT The Civic Club was one of the
1908 hosts for the annual joint conven-
tion of the National Municipal
League and American Civic Association which was held
November 16, 1908 in the Chamber of Commerce and
Trinity Chapel. The Club was also represented in the
civic exhibit held at Carnegie Institute from the above
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date to December 31st, 1908. The reports of investiga-
tions of certain living conditions in the city formed the
nucleus around which the various civic and altruistic
agencies of the city hung exhibits showing the results
of their efforts and labor for civic betterment.
CONSERVATION In April, 1908, resolutions were
1908 sent by the Civic Club to Theo-
dore Roosevelt, then President of
the United States, expressing its gratification because of
'his action in calling a conference of the governors of all
the States, with their advisors, the Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress, as well as members of national
organizations interested in the present and future de-
velopment of this country, to consider the "Conserva-
tion of our Natural Resources" and ultimately to secure
improved State and Federal legislation to provide for the
future commercial and industrial welfare of the nation.
FREE BRIDGES As one of the many civic bodies
1908 interested, the Civic Club sent rep-
resentatives who appeared before
Councils in October, 1908, advocating the freeing of the
bridges as soon as practicable.
CAMP SCHOOL. The active interest of the Civic
1908 Club in educational work among
foreigners had its beginning in
April, 1908, when the Society for Italian Immigrants of
New York requested the Civic Club and the Twentieth
Century Club to undertake the supervision of the camp
school for Italian laborers located at the filtration plant
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in Aspinwall. This school had been established by Miss
Sara Moore, the Society's superintendent of camp
schools. Committees from the Civic Club, with Mrs. E.
Vermorcken, Chairman, and from the Twentieth Cen-
tury Club, Mrs. A. M. Imbrie, Chairman, were appointed
and under their direction the work was continued until
the camp was disbanded upon completion of the filtra-
tion plant. The school building was then moved to Am-
bridge, Pa., where the Society for Italian Immigrants
has established another school for adult foreigners.
EDUCATIONAL WORK As a result of the interest
AMONG FOREIGNERS aroused in the welfare and
1909 education of our foreign
population through the
work in the camp school, a Committee on Work among
Foreigners with Miss Martha E. Kelly, Chairman, was
appointed in the fall of 1909 in the Educational Depart-
ment of the Civic Club, with the idea of ultimately or-
ganizing civic clubs among foreigners. Classes were
formed and instruction in English and civics given. In
two rooms of the Soho Bath-house successful night
classes were held, beginning March 8, 1910, on Tuesday
and Thursday evenings, under the direction of Miss
Mary Breeze, Miss St. Peter, Miss Mary Wilson, Miss
Susan Maple, Miss Belle McMillan and two or three
assistants. Several large open meetings were held, a
feature of these being an address in a foreign tongue
(according to the nationality of the audience), and
stereopticon views of some of the scenic wonders of the
United States.
In May, 1910, this committee of the Educational De-
partment called a conference of representatives of or-
ganizations now engaged in civic and educational work
among foreigners in Pittsburgh. The purpose of the con-
ference was simply to bring the workers together for
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the mutual benefit to be derived from an exchange of
ideas and a discussion of methods. Addresses were made
dealing with the work done by the Church, the Y. M.
C. A., the public schools and the Carnegie Library, The
necessity for co-operation among existing agencies was
so strongly felt that it was decided to make the confer-
ence an annual event.
Immediately following this conference a number of
prominent Italians, under the leadership of Rev. Salva-
tore Musso, held a meeting June twenty-ninth, 1910, at
which they appointed a committee to co-operate with the
Civic Club in a plan which should directly result in the
civic betterment of their own people in this community.
In the fall of 1910, following a summer vacation, the
evening classes for foreigners were again started in the
Soho Bath-house every Tuesday and Thursday evening.
At the same time the committee was extending its work
by making arrangements for opening other classes in
the Ralston School and Lawrenceville district. In pur-
suance of the policy adopted the year before, entertain-
ments have been arranged for every month during the
season.
OPEN-AIR In February, 1909, through the efforts of
SCHOOL the Tuberculosis Committee of the Civic
1909 Club, an open-air school was provided on
one of the porches of the Tuberculosis
Hospital and was equipped with desks and books. The
salary of a teacher was assumed and continued until
September, 1910. The money for this undertaking was
raised by enthusiastic and energetic members of the
committee, including Miss Katherine Eichleay, Miss
Mary Gleim, Mrs. S. A. Pickering and Mrs. Paul Sturte-
vant, with two generous contributions from the
Women's Southern Society.
The Hospital supplied the sleeping bags and the
three meals a day to the pupils, whose number varied
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from 12 to 15. These children had four hours of study
and two hours of rest and gained in weight on an aver-
age of 5^ pounds. At the same time the attention of
the public was drawn to the advantages accruing from
this method of treating backward school children in
other cities and interest was solicited toward the demand
for it in Pittsburgh.
The statistics, so far as the work has gone, show
that there are probably enough children afflicted with
tuberculosis in our city to fill such an open-air school in
each ward. It is the aim of the committee to see that
such schools are established wherever needed. An open
meeting was held in Carnegie Hall in January, 1910,
arranged by Dr. W. C. White, Chairman, Dr.
E. B, McCready and Dr. T. W. Grayson, the
latter giving an illustrated lecture upon what
has been done not only for the tuberculous but
aenemic and backward children in schools of other
cities. Dr. Grayson has appeared before the Principals
and Teachers Associations of Pittsburgh and Allegheny,
and found much interest and willingness to co-operate
on the part of those who know, by their contact with
the children committed to their charge, what advantages
there would be in the provision for an open-air depart-
ment in each public school building.
The committee 'has divided the work among sub-
committees under the headings of literature, lectures
and publicity. A public campaign has been begun by
sending the most recent and instructive literature to the
members of the school boards, principals and all those
who may directly be interested in this up-to-date and
improved method of taking care of the physically and
mentally deficient pupil.
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LECTURE COURSE Beginning with the fall of 1909
1909 and continuing into the Spring
of 1910 a course of six lectures
was held under the joint auspices of seven organizations
in the Allied Boards of Trade. The Civic Club acted
as host upon one of these occasions and through its
Committee, Mr. William P. Field, Mr. Charles B. Fer-
nald, and Mr. Malcolm McGififin assisted in arranging
an interesting program of civic lectures and debates.
OPEN MEETINGS In addition to the annual Meet-
1909 ing of the Civic Club, which is
open to the Club members and
their friends, there were held in 1909 two open meetings,
one in February and one in June to discuss the general
work of the Club.
STATE LEGISLATION The year 1909, being what
1909 might be called for the lack
of a better term, a legisla-
tive year, the chief activities of the Civic Club centered
about proposed legislation along a number of lines in
which it was interested. The measures that seemed all-
important at this time were the Bills drafted in
the Civic Club, providing for an industrial and
training school for boys, which passed ; and another
Bill introduced through the Committee on Camp
Schools asking for an appropriation for night schools
for foreigners, with which to cover the provi-
sions of the Bill passed in 1907, which did not pass;
the School Code, in which was incorporated the provi-
sion for medical inspection in schools as recommended
by the Committee on Medical Inspection of the Civic
Club, and the Child Labor Bills, Consumers League
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Bills, The Anti-Expectoration, and Adult Probation
Bills, which were endorsed and advocated by personal
interviews and correspondence.
FEDERAL LEGISLATION In addition to the State
1909 Legislation, petitions
were sent to Congress
advocating the creation of a Federal Children's Bureau ;
renewed efforts were also made urging the passage of
laws for the protection of Niagara, and for the passage
of the Appalachian and White Mountain Reserve Bill.
This last measure has been tossed from pillar to post
until it has at last been unanimously agreed by the House
and Senate to vote upon it the 15th of February, 1911.
As this goes to press the Bill has become a law.
ROOMS OF DETENTION Perhaps the most im-
1910 portant direct accom-
plishment of the Club
during the year 1910 has been the securing of a proper
enforcement of the Juvenile Court Law in its provision
as to rooms of detention for children under sixteen who
are in custody and awaiting hearing or placement.
Although the Juvenile Court Act, passed in 1903,
specifically states that "No child, pending a hearing un-
der the provisions of this act, shall be held in confine-
ment in any county or other jail or police station, or in
any institution to which adult convicts are sentenced",
the Juvenile Court Committee deemed it inexpedient to
delay the organization of the Court until suitable rooms
of detention could be provided, and consented to what
was expected to be a very temporary waiver of this
proviso. However, seven years were permitted to
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elapse, with the children of the Juvenile Court still kept
within the gloomy prison walls. When it is remem-
bered that many of the wards of this Court are very
young, (their ages ranging from five or six to sixteen
years) and that numbers of them are detained not even
for an alleged offense, but merely as dependent children
awaiting the decision of the Court relative to their dis-
posal, it is not surprising that Allegheny County has
been severely criticised for this dereliction.
The Juvenile Court Committee perhaps erred in
not insisting from the start on a strict compliance with
the law; but the new method of dealing with the child
offender was such an innovation as to be regarded with
doubt by both bench and laity, and the Committee felt
that, to win its way to popular approval, it was the part
of wisdom not to ask for too much at the outset. But
the intended temporary provision for the rooms of de-
tention soon established itself in the minds of the
County officers as a fixed policy, and repeated efforts ■
by the Juvenile Court Association later to ihave the de-
tention rooms removed from the jail failed; such failure
being reported to the Civic Club from time to time, in
response to its urgent inquiries regarding the prospect
of a change.
Therefore in February, 1910, the Club, deeming that
the time had long since come for decisive action in the
matter, arranged for a meeting between the County
Commissioners and a large committee of its members.
This meeting resulted in a thoroughly amicable and satis-
factory conference. The Commissioners, having fallen
heir to the situation, so to speak, from their predecessors
in office, did not at first exactly appreciate tlie desira-
bility of a change. When, however, their attention was
directed to the very explicit language of the Act they
agreed with the committee that to detain these children
within the walls of the jail, even though separate and
apart from the adult prisoners, was a direct violation of
the law. The Commissioners and the Committee re-
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gretted that the arrangements to house the children
elsewhere, which they decided would be made as soon as
practicable, necessitated taking them from the very wise
and gentle supervision of Warden Lewis. The final out-
come was, after various plans (of which the Club was
kept advised), that temporary rooms have been fitted up
in the old Pittsburgh Academy Building, located on
property which the County expects to use, later on, for
the annex to the Court House. While these rooms are
not ideal, they are incomparably preferable to the old
arrangement under which many wholly innocent and
very young children, capable of being set in the right
path, were blighted by the stigma of having been in
jail. It is hoped that in the not far distant future Alle-
gheny County may have a model Children's Court build-
ing such, for example, as Milwaukee, Kansas City, Chi-
cago and a few other cities possess.
TREE COMMISSION Following the passage, by the
1910 Pennsylvania Legislature in
1907, of the Act permitting
municipalities to appoint commissioners with power to
regulate the planting and care of trees in streets and
highways, which the Civic Club had actively endorsed,
the Forestry Committee of the Club went quietly and
earnestly to work to secure an acceptance of the Act by
Councils. Mayor Magee became greatly interested and
urged upon Councils the desirability of ratifying this
measure. That body acted favorably in the fall of 1909.
In the spring of 1910 the Tree Commission, composed of
Mr. Edward M. Bigelow, President, Controller Morrow
and Mr. Wm. D. Grimes, was appointed to serve without
compensation. After some opposition (which the Club
did its best to help eliminate), an appropriation of $15,-
000 was made to assist the Commission in the care of
the street trees as contemplated by the law.
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Mr. James L. Grimes, who has been appointed City
Forester, is a graduate of the Yale Forestry School, and
is thoroughly familiar with the work of his department.
It is hoped that he will have the co-operation of the peo-
ple of Pittsburgh in order to enable him to carry out
the task of beautifying the streets of the City in the most
expeditious manner.
"PITTSBURGH PLAN" That the city government,
1910 through the recent disclos-
ures of official corruption in
Pittsburgh, needs some alterations in its present system,
is a problem in which the various civic bodies are deeply
interested.
Following a mass meeting held in April, 1910, a
"New Charter Committee", composed of two delegates
each from seventeen civic and commercial organizations,
was formed. Mr. T. J. Keenan and Mr. John E. Potter
most ably represent the Civic Club in this non-partisan
civic movement.
After a careful study of the most successful forms
of government and municipal charters of other cities
"The Pittsburgh Plan" was adopted by the general com-
mittee and has since been approved by the organizations
represented for presentation to the 1911 session of the
Legislature.
VICE CRUSADE With the knowledge that the ex-
1910 tent of the so-called "Social Evil"
in Pittsburgh is so wide-spread,
and its effects so grave as seriously to endanger not only
the morals but the health of the people, and because the
public conscience should have been, if it were not,
aroused by the revelations made by Mr. Wm. H. Mat-
thews of Kingsley House and the Academy of Science
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and Art, the Civic Club pledged its support and accepted
a place through representatives on a committee, formed
by the Eugenic Section of the Academy, which arranged
for a mass meeting held in Carnegie Hall, April 12, 1910,
when the social evils that are making for ill-health and
bad citizenship were discussed, with a view to educating
the people to the necessity of taking measures toward
correcting these conditions.
CITY BUDGET In February, 1910, in response to an
1910 invitation from the Chamber of Com-
merce for an informal conference on
the 1910 budget of the City of Pittsburgh, the question
of a permanent annual conference of civic associations
on the city budget was discussed, and as a result a com-
mittee vvas appointed to draft a plan for permanent or-
ganization to be known as the Budget Conference of the
City of Pittsburgh. Following the acceptance of this
committee's report, the Allied Boards of Trade, upon
request, undertook the formation of the budget confer-
ence — the object being to classify and prepare for public
distribution information concerning the income and ex-
penditures of the city for the purpose of suggestion, ad-
vice and information.
FLOODS The Civic Club regards the work being
1910 done by the Flood Commission organized
by the Chamber of Commerce with the
deepest interest and looks forward to the permanent
solution of the problem of flood prevention for Pitts-
burgh.
In order to show the Board's appreciation of the
importance of this matter, the opportunity was grate-
fully accepted to acquaint the members of the Civic Club
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with the work being done, through an open meeting held
in May, 1910, w'hen two of the Commission's experts,
Mr. Morris Knowles and Mr. George H. Maxwell, Chair-
man of the National Irrigation Association, presented
the need of preventive and corrective measures for the
protection of the city against the frequent floods that
cause such havoc and monetary loss. Many striking
stereopticon views of flood scenes in Pittsburgh and vi-
cinity and the efifect of deforestation and reforestation,
with illustrations of great engineering feats being ac-
complished in other parts of the United States,
reiterated the statistics given by both speakers.
BUILDING CODE In January, 1910, the Pittsburgh
1910 Chapter of the American Insti-
tute of architects, which for sev-
eral years had been striving to impress upon the city
authorities the pressing need for a revision of the build-
ing code, called a meeting of the representatives of the
civic and professional organizations to form a committee
that should prepare a suitable outline and recommenda-
tion to Mayor Magee and Councils for the appointment
of a commission and the appropriation of an adequate
sum to pay the expense of the clerical work of a commis-
sion, whose duty would be to prepare and recommend a
suitable and complete building code for the City of Pitts-
burgh.
Following this meeting, a sub-committee, on which
Mr. Cornelius D. Scully, one of the Civic Club repre-
sentatives served, waited upon the Mayor on January
13th, 1910 and received his promise of hearty co-opera-
tion. On January 31st a resolution was adopted in
Councils authorizing and empowering Mayor Magee to
appoint a commission composed of not more than seven
representative citizens to serve without compensation.
This was signed by the Mayor the day after it was
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passed, and the 1910 budget contained the sum of
$7,500.00 for the use of the Commission. Mr. Edward
Stotz, President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Amer-
ican Institute of Architects, who had been working on
this plan for some time, was appointed Chairman and
one delegate each representing respectively the real
estate interests, the Master Builder's Association, Engi-
neer's Society, Bar Association, Master Plumber's Asso-
ciation and the Civic Club of Allegheny County, com-
pose its membership. Immediately following the ap-
pointment and the first meeting held, a clerk was em-
ployed to make a compilation of existing codes in other
cities, under the supervision of the Chairman of the
Commission. This compilation has practically been
completed, and so far the Commission 'has prepared and
has about ready to present ordinances covering the use
of hollow tile building block and re-enforced concrete in
building construction, neither of which have been re-
garded by the city in existing laws. The result of the
appointment of this Commission in Pittsburgh has lead
to a similiar Commission in Philadelphia. It is hoped
that the amalgamation of both forces may result in a
statute that will create a commission to cover the entire
State.
MUNICIPAL LODGING It is a matter of great re-
HOUSE FOR MEN gret that the petitions of a
1910 large number of social,
civic, and philanthropic
organizations, the Civic Club among them, were of no
avail in securing an appropriation in the budget of 1910
for the establishment and maintenance of a Municipal
Lodging House for Homeless Men.
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REFORMATORY FOR For some time officials of
WOMEN the Courts and persons en-
1910 gaged in charitable work
have felt that Pennsylvania
was deficient in its means for reclaiming women who are
offenders against the law; that women from 16 to 30
years drift repeatedly through the Courts and into prison
and after brief detention go out again as helpless and
hopeless as they went in. The Civic Club of Philadel-
phia, which is responsible for initiating a campaign for
legislation to secure a reformatory similar, for example,
to that at Bedford, N. Y., will ask for an appropriation
for such an institution by the 1911 session of the Legis-
lature and will direct the campaign throughout the State.
The Civic Club of Allegheny County, at their request,
has been enlisted among other associations and lias
agreed to endorse and assist in securing the passage of
this measure.
BILLBOARDS As the Civic Club endorsed and
1910 worked for the passage of a law gov-
erning the erection and taxation of
billboards, introduced by the American Civic Associa-
tion in the 1907 session of the Legislature, it goes with-
out saying that, spurred on by its failure to pass, the
Club's attention to the billboard as a nuisance and dis-
figurement was firmly rooted.
Associations and individuals who were powerless
to govern the inclinations of their lessees had brought
to the attention of the Club a number of times their
absolute helplessness in controlling the erection of bill-
boards upon their own and adjoining property, and
there seemed no way to attack the proposition save
through a concerted effective organization of the various
civic and social interests. It can properly be stated that
while a comprehensive brief covering the legal status of
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the billboards in the State of Pennsylvania and City of
Pittsburgh was prepared and submitted to the committee
under the Department of Municipal Art of the Civic
Club, Mr. John W. Beatty, Chairman in November, 1909,
active steps looking toward the restriction of the bill-
board through the formation of such an organized com-
mittee were not taken until January, 1910. A special
committee of three (Mr. Wm. A. Roberts, Chairman;
Mr. Wm. K. Johnson, and Mr. J. D. Hailman) was ap-
pointed by the Board to direct the policy through a plan
they were authorized to formulate.
Understanding just how far they could go through
the laws and ordinances, or the lack of them, the first
step taken was by letter directed to forty-five civic and
social organizations inquiring the sentiment for or
against the billboard in order to ascertain what support,
if any, a movement against the billboard would have
from co-working bodies. The responses were very
satisfactory, illustrating that most effective results could
be obtained by combining and crystalizing the forces in-
terested.
After numerous conferences and meetings, the Com-
mittee submitted a report to the Board of the Civic Club
with its conclusions that their number should be in-
creased by one or two representatives from the inter-
ested organizations of the City and by additional num-
bers from the Civic Club, and recommended :
1st. A campaign of education.
2nd. That full data concerning the billboards in
the City of Pittsburgh be gathered for the use of this
committee, the information of the Club in general, and
the further use in Councils when an ordinance is pre-
sented.
3rd. That real estate owners be requested to co-
operate with the larger committee in refusing to permit
the use of their property for billboard advertising.
4th. That the local theatrical managers and all the
painters, lithographers and printers of this class of work
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be asked to co-operate with said committee in the im-
provement of such signs and billboards.
5th. That in conjunction with this campaign of
education, local legislation be sought in line with a tenta-
tive form of ordinance now in the hands of the commit-
tee, which has in large part been drafted after the ordi-
nance for the regulation of billboards in other cities,
notably that of the City of St. Louis, which has been
sustained by the Appellate Courts of the State of Mis-
souri.
The Board approved of this report and advised that
the committee further outline a plan of procedure.
Following the provision that the Billboard Com-
mittee of the Civic Club shoull be increased by delegates
from other civic bodies or by individuals interested, nine-
teen organizations have affiliated in this work, and ac-
cording to the decision made at the first meeting, for the
time being the enlarged committee will carry on the
work under the Civic Club and be known as the "Bill-
board Committee". From this larger committee, imme-
diately after its organization, certain standing sub-com-
mittees were appointed by the Chairman, Mr. Wm. A.
Roberts, each to take charge of a particular part of the
work of the whole committee through the following
mediums :
A committee on statistics with Mr. John T. Comes,
Chairman, to gather data as to the number, size, location,
subject matter, owners, etc., of the billboards in Pitts-
burgh for the use of the committee at large and the in-
formation and education of the community.
A publicity committee with Mr. John L. Porter.
Chairman, to bring to the attention of the public the
work of this committee and so create a helpful interest
in the regulation of billboards.
A committee on advertisers and owners, Mr. John
D. Hailman, Chairman, to present the matter especially
to the advertisers and owners of property and procure
their co-operation in the work.
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A committee on law and legislation, Mr. Wm. K.
Johnson, Chairman, to prepare laws and ordinances for
the regulation and taxation of billboards.
A finance committee, Mr. E. B. Lee, Chairman.
It was further decided that a meeting of the whole
committee be held at least once each month at which
the several sub-committees could report progress and
policies of the committee and conduct of the work could
be discussed and decided upon.
The Legislative Committee has drawn up two Bills
and a tentative ordinance. The committee on statistics
■has handed in a complete report covering Pittsburgh
proper and a number of interesting photographs have
been taken. It is hoped that this movement will find
enthusiastic backing, as it is one of the greatest forward
steps toward making this city beautiful.
IMMIGRATION The object of the Board of the
1910 Civic Club to promote the general
welfare of the immigrant through
the organization of an association to take up the ques-
tion of the distribution, protection, education and as-
similation of the immigrant may be better understood
by quoting Miss Kellor who puts the matter clearly
when she says, "The State should take up, at the point
where the Federal government lays aside its responsi-
bility, the real question of immigration, which is the
problem of making the immigrant into a good citizen,
protecting him when he is looking for a job and helping
him to go to the part of the State where he is most
needed, where the best conditions exist, where there is
the best standard of living and where he may find con-
genial associates." Believing that only through an asso-
ciation organized to centralize this kind of work could
effective service be given by the State, a committee was
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appointed in October, 1910, whose object should be the
formation of adequate plans.
Miss Frances A. Kellor, Chief of the Bureau of In-
dustries and immigration of the State of New York and
Secretary of the New York Committee of the North
American Civic League for Immigrants, came to Pitts-
burgh to start this committee in its work. Miss J. M.
Campbell, Educational Secretary of the New York Com-
mittee, accompanied Miss Kellor. During their three
days in Pittsburgh, numerous meetings were held with
the heads of all departments of work in any way con-
nected with the foreigners, in order that they might bet-
ter be able to suggest a policy for the Civic Club com-
mittee. An open meeting was 'held at the Chamber of
Commerce, when, in addition to the above named, an
address was made by Baron Paul Forster, the Austro-
Hungarian Consul of Pittsburgh. A number of meetings
were held with the committee and a plan was drawn up
under the following heads and adopted as a basis for the
work :
1st. A resume of the philanthropic, charitable, edu-
cational, and religious agencies relative to their work
with or for the foreigner.
2nd. Transportation : stations and trains, transfer,
rates, distribution to Pittsburgh points.
3rd. Laws : state statutes and ordinances govern-
ing families, domestic relations and department regula-
tions,
4th. Employment agencies: domestic agencies and
contract labor agencies.
5th. Banks, steamship agents.
6th. Notaries public.
7th. Co-operation : children and distributor, trans-
portation via New York and Pittsburgh.
The immigration bureaus in the few states that
have them are solely for the purpose of obtaining labor
or developing the industries of the state. In Pittsburgh
there are the Y. M. C. A., the church, the public schools,
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the Methodist Episcopal Deaconesses, the Immigrant
Aid Society, the Settlements, etc., working on very im-
portant and special kinds of work, but the scope of the
above committee comprehends them all and 'hopes ulti-
mately by co-operation to blend them into a great clear-
ing house that will better the condition, welfare and in-
dustrial opportunities of the alien. It needs investiga-
tion and money to start this work, and it will be a task
of some proportions. New York has been most fortu-
nate in having these difficulties solved by the provision
of funds to put it on a working basis and the results
'have more than warranted the expenditure. The Civic
Club, unless aided in some unexpected way, will have to
depend on volunteer service, which precludes the possi-
bility of accomplishing its object immediately, but it has
worked long and hard on other problems and is prepared
to pursue the same course in this.
FEDERAL LEGISLATION The Civic Club through
1910 its Legislative Commit-
tee, in February, 1910,
sent letters to all the Pennsylvania representatives in
Congress, urging them to bring about the suppression
of the transportation of women for immoral purposes,
by aiding to secure a $50,000 appropriation to be used
by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for employ-
ment of special inspectors to bring persons engaged in
such traffic to indictment and conviction, and urging
them to aid in the final passage of bills relating to this
subject H. R. Nos. 15816, Senate No. 4514.
In April, 1910, the Club strongly endorsed the pas-
sage of the H. R. Bill 13915 relative to the creation, in
the Department of the Interior, of a Bureau of Mines.
In May, 1910, it urged the endorsement by the Pennsyl-
vania Representatives and Senators of Senate Bill 6049
establishing a national Department of Health,
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AFFILIATIONS The Civic Club maintains an
"affiliated" membership in the
American Civic Association, the National Municipal
League, the National Child Labor Association, the Child
Labor Association of Allegheny County, and the Asso-
ciated Charities of Pittsburgh.
FINANCES The Civic Club has every reason to be-
lieve that it is not individual when it
comes to the subject of finances. The amount of work
done could never have been accomplished with the an-
nual dues at $2.00 or the annual receipts credited to the
general fund, which is used to defray all office expenses
including rent, salaries, printing, stationery, telephone,
incidentals, postage, etc., if it were not for the fact that
from the very beginning of the Club each department or
the committees under them 'have been obliged, through
a finance committee, to raise their own funds. This fund
is turned into the Civic Club treasury and vouchers for
the disbursement thereof are paid by the Treasurer of
the Civic Club upon order of the Secretary after approval
by the various committees.
In the following table of general fund receipts it
will be noticed that between 1899 and 1906 there were
no donations of any kind to the general fund.
General Fund Receipts.
1898 $1,450.25
1899 1,312.59
1900 426.00
1901 477.00
1902 452.00
1903 592.00
1904 547.00
1905 725.00
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1906 1,682.35
1907 1,023.25
1908 1,561.87
1909 1,712.48
1910 2,505.06
# Beginning with the year 1906, when $933.50 was
contributed to the general fund from a benefit entertain-
ment, there were contributions to the fund that fluc-
tuated greatly each year.
In order to insure the support necessary for the
successful continuance of the work, the Board in 1910
decided to establish a guarantee fund. The following
members of the Club pledged to contribute annually
amounts ranging from $5.00 to $50.00 in addition to
their dues. The total amount of the guarantee fund in
1910 was $1,120. This amount added to the general
fund brought the receipts for 1910 up to $2,505.06.
GUARANTORS.
Allen, Col. Edw. Jay ,
Arbuckle, Miss Christina
Armstrong, Mrs. Chas. D.
Ayers, Mr. H. B.
Barr, Mr. J. H.
Bell, Mr. Arthur W.
Bindley, Mr. John
B
Bissell, Mrs. Frank
Blackburn, Mrs, W. W.
Cassidy, Mrs. Wm. H.
Chalfant, Miss Isabel
Clark, Mrs. W. E.
Clause. Mr. Wm. L.
Clemson, Mrs. D. M.
Connell, Mr. Wm. H.
Corey, Mr. Wm. E.
Crutchfield, Mr. J. S.
Demmler, Mrs. A. J.
Denny, Miss Matilda
D
DuPuy, Mrs. Herbert
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£
Edwards, Miss Katherine M.
Fernald. Mr. C. B.
H
Hamburg, Mr. Phillip
Heinz, Mr. Howard C.
Hamilton, Mrs. William D, Heinz, Mr. H. J.
Hanauer, Mr. A. M.
Harbison Estate
Heinz, Mr. Clarence
Holdship, Mr. C. F.
Houston, Mr. Jas. H.
lams, Mrs. Franklin P.
Irish, Miss Charlotte
Jackson, Miss Mary Louise
Keenan, Mr. T. J.
Kennedy, Mr. Wm. M.
K
King, Mrs. Alexander
Lincoln, Mr. Wm. E.
Lockhart, Mr. Jas. H.
Lyon, Mrs. C. L.
Martin, Dr. Elizabeth
Martin, Mrs. Sherwood C,
Mehard, Hon. S. S.
Mellon, Mr. A. W.
Mellon, Mrs. Jas. R.
M
Mellon, Mr. Richard B.
Miller, Mrs. Reuben
Moorhead, Miss Emily
Murdock, Mr. Alexander
Mc
McClintock, Mr. Oliver
McConway, Mrs. William
McCreery, Mrs. William H.
McGinley, Mrs. John R.
McLean, Mrs. Chas. B.
Negley, Mr. Henry H.
Oliver, Mrs. Jas. B.
N
o
Oliver, Miss Mildred
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Porter, Mr. H. K.
Quigley, Mr. J, E.
Rauh, Mrs. Enoch
R
Roberts, Mr. W. A.
Schoyer, Mr. A. M.
Schleuderberg, Mr. Geo. W.
Shaw, Mr. Wilson A.
Shea, Mr. J. B.
Shepherd, Mrs. J. N.
Singer, Mrs. W. H.
Spring, Miss Anna M.
Spring estate, for Elizabeth
Spring.
Stevenson, Mr. William H.
Stevenson, Mrs. William H.
Sweeny, Miss Sara
Taylor, Mrs. Chas. L.
Taylor, Mr. Edward B.
Thaw, Mr. William
Thaw, Mrs. William, Jr.
Thompson, Mrs. Wm. R.
Torrance, Mr. Francis J.
Walker, Mrs. John
Wardrop, Mrs. Robert
Webster, Mr. F. S.
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Whitman, Mrs. William T.
Woods, Mr. E. A.
Woodwell, Mrs. John
Wurtz, Mr. Alexander Jay
Young, Mr. Samuel
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The following addresses 'have been delivered at
open meeting's held by the Civic Club from time to time :
February 25th, 1896—
"The Work of the Philadelphia Civic Club",
Miss Mary Channing Wister.
February 5th, 1897—
"Proper Diet for School Children," Miss Kath-
arine Davis.
April 7th, 1899—
"Forestry," Miss M. L. Dock, Harrisburg.
"Co-Operation," Miss Florence Wilkinson,
Syracuse.
"Charity Organization". Mr. R. D. McGon-
nigle, Pittsburgh.
February 2nd, 1900—
"Improved Housing of the Poor." Mr. Jacob
Riis, New York.
November 12th, 1901—
"The Work of a Legal Aid Society, "Miss
Rosalie Loew, New York.
March 7th, 1902—
Prof. Charles Zeublin.
January 29th, 1903—
"The Importance of a Separate Court for
Juvenile Offenders," Mrs. Alice B. Montgomery,
Philadelphia.
"Women's Work in Municipal Housekeeping,"
Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, California.
March 25th, 1903—
"Peak, Pass and Plain," (Illustrated), Mr.
Gilbert McClurg, Colorado Springs.
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November 3rd, 1904-
"Awakening America," Mr. Clinton Rodgers
Woodruff, Philadelphia.
March 4th, 1905—
"Night Work for Children," Mr. Owen R.
Lovejoy, New York.
"The Working Child and the Law,'' Mrs. Flor-
ence Kelley, New York.
November 29th, 1905—
"Methods of Beautifying City Streets and
Neighborhoods,"' Mr. E. G. Rontzahn, Chicago.
February 21st, 1906—
"Municipal Sanitation; the Abatement of the
Smoke Nuisance," Dr. Justus Ohage, St. Paul.
February 26th, 1906—
"With Secretary Taft in the Philippines," Mr.
Burr Mcintosh, New York.
January, 1907—
"Disposal of Waste," Dr. J. F. Edwards, Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania.
"Subway," Mr. A. O. Fording, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
June 20th, 1907—
"Federation of Charities," Mr. William H.
Allen, New York.
November 12th, 1908—
"Stuff and Service in the Helping of the Poor,"
Mr. Charles F. Weller, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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November 12th, 1908—
"Municipal Control of Tuberculosis," Dr. Wm.
Chas. White, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
November 2ord, 1909—
"Industrial Training School for Boys," Mr.
Hastings H. Hart, New York.
November 23rd, 1910—
"Municipal Control of Shade Trees," Mr. Wil-
liam Solotaroff, East Orange, New Jersey.
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE I.
The Association s'hall be called the Civic Club of
Allegheny County.
ARTICLE II.
The object of this association shall be to promote
by education and organized efifort, a higher public
spirit, and a better social order.
ARTICLE III.
Section 1. For the better execution of its objects
the Club shall be divided into Departments, repre-
senting its different lines of work, namely: Govern-
ment, Education, Social Science and Art.
Department I — Government.
Section 2. The duties of this Department shall be
to examine into the aims and functions, and into the
practical workings of the governments of the cities of
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Pittsburgh and Allegheny, and of Allegheny County,
and from time to time to report upon the same, and
to suggest measures for improvement, and to co-oper-
ate in carrying out such measures in relation thereto
as may be approved by the Board of Directors.
Department 2 — Education.
Section 3. The duties of this Department shall be
to examine into the requirements of Public Education
in the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, and in Alle-
gheny County, and from time to time to report upon
the same, and to suggest measures for improvement,
and to co-operate in carrying out such measures in
relation thereto as may be approved by the Board of
Directors.
Department 3 — Social Science.
Section 4. The duties of this Department shall
be to examine into the problems of Household Sani-
tation, of Public Health, of Philanthropy, and of
Social Reform, particularly as they afifect the interests
of the citizens of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, and
from time to time to report upon the same, and to
suggest measures of improvement, and to co-operate
in carrying out such measures in relation thereto as
may be approved by the Board of Directors.
Department 4 — Art.
Section 5. The duties of this Department shall
be to study and to encourage the Art interests of
these cities, with a view to increasing the beauty of
our parks and public places, and to raising the stand-
ing of public taste and demand for Art in all Depart-
ments.
ARTICLE IV.
Section 1. The officers of the Club shall be a
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President, four Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and a
Treasurer.
SeCition 2. The President, Vice-Presidents, Sec-
retary, Treasurer and eighteen other additional directors
shall constitute a Board of Directors; and five members
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 3. There shall be three standing commit-
tees, namely: Membership, Finance and Legislation.
The President shall appoint the Chairmen of these com-
mittees from the Board of Directors, and the President,
in conjunction with the respective Chairmen, shall ap-
point the remaining members of these committees.
Section 4. All officers and directors shall be elected
by ballot at the annual meeting. A plurality of the votes
shall be required to elect.
ARTICLE V.
Duties of Officers.
Section 1. The President shall preside at all meet-
ings of the Club and of the Board of Directors.
Section 2. The Vice-Presidents shall preside in
their order in the absence of the President.
Section 3. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of
each meeting of the Club, and shall conduct the corres-
pondence of the Club, under direction of the Board, and
shall perform the other duties usually pertaining to such
office, as the Board may direct.
Section 4. Tiie Chairman of each Department
shall present for approval at the monthly meeting of the
Board of Directors, a statement of expenses likely to be
incurred in the coming month by that Department, and
shall contract no obligation without authority for the
same.
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Section 5. The Treasurer shall be the custodian of
the funds of the Club, which shall be paid upon the
order of the Secretary, after approval by the Board.
Vouchers for all disbursements must be taken and an
account kept of all receipts and expenditures. A monthly
report shall be made to the Board, and also a full report
of the finances of the Club at the annual meeting, the
correctness of which must be attested by an Auditing
Committee.
Section 6. The Board of Directors shall transact
the business of the Club. It shall have power to fill
vacancies in its own body for an unexpired term. It
shall appoint special committees as occasion may require.
One member of each of these committees shall be a mem-
ber of the Board of Directors.
Section 7. The Chairman of each Department shall
arrange and attend the stated meetings of the Depart-
ment. He shall prepare and provide for such work as
may be under the charge of the Department, of which he
shall make a report to the Board at its September meet-
ing. At each meeting of the Board of Directors he shall
report the work undertaken by the Department, and, at
the annual meeting, the work accomplished during the
year.
ARTICLE VI.
Membership.
Section 1. Any respectable citizen of Allegheny
County may become a member of the Club by having
his or her name proposed and acted upon at any meet-
ing of the Board of Directors. Upon election the Secre-
tary shall inform him or her of the fact, and upon paying
the annual dues he or she shall be accepted as a member
and assigned to one of the departments of the Club.
Section 2. Any incorporated or unincorporated
Club, Society or other organization of kindred purpose
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desiring to aid in the work of The Civic Club may be
proposed for associate club membership, and upon its
election by the Board of Directors and the payment of
the annual dues hereinafter provided for, it shall become
an Associate Club Member and be entitled to have two
voting delegates at the annual and special meetings of
The Civic Club.
ARTICLE VII.
Dues.
Section 1. Annual Dues of Two Dollars shall
be required from each member.
Section 2. Annual dues of $10.00 shall be paid by
each associate club member.
Section 3, The annual dues should be paid before
the 15t'h of October in each year, due notice of the same
having been sent to each member by the Treasurer.
ARTICLE VIII.
Meetings.
Section 1. The annual meeting shall be Jheld in
November, the exact date to be determined by the
Board of Directors.
Section 2. A meeting of the Board of Directors
shall be held each month, for the transaction of the gen-
eral business of the Club.
Section 3. Special meetings of the Club may be
called by the Board of Directors upon individual notifi-
cation. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may
be called by the President, and he shall call such a meet-
ing at the request of two or more Directors. At all
special meetings the business for which the meeting is
called shall be clearly stated in the notification of the
meeting.
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ARTICLE IX.
Amendments.
Section 1. The Constitution and By-Laws may be
amended at an annual or special meeting of the Club by
a two-thirds vote of the members present; the amend-
ments having been proposed and approved at a previous
meeting of the Board of Directors, and a copy thereof
appended to the call for the meeting.
ARTICLE X.
The deliberations of all meetings of the Club shall
be governed by Roberts' "Rules of Order."
ARTICLE XI.
People's Bath House.
Section 1. At the annual meeting of the Club there
shall be elected a Board of Managers for the Bathhouse,
consisting of ten members who shall hold office for a
term of one year. At least one member of this Board
shall be a member of the Board of Directors of the
Civic Club of Allegheny County.
Section 2. The Managers shall hold ofifice for a
term of one year. In case of vacancy the Board of Di-
rectors shall have power to fill the same.
Section 3. The officers of said Board shall be a
Chairman and a Secretary and such other officers as the
Board shall deem necessary. The Board shall organize
as soon as possible after election.
Section 4. The Bathhouse Managers shall have
power to make all necessary rules and regulations for
the management and control of any bathhouse which
may be acquired by the Civic Club. They shall report
monthly to the Board of Directors of the Civic Club.
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They shall have the power to engage and remove all
necessary attendants — to make ordinary repairs and con-
tract for and purchase supplies for the running of bath-
houses.
ARTICLE XIL
The Board of Directors shall have power to make
a division of the County into districts and within each
district to appoint a District Chairman and Board of
Directors with power to organize the members of The
Civic Club resident within such district for the further-
ing of both the general work of the Club and its particu-
lar work pertaining to such district.
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Abbott, Mr. W. L.
Acheson, Mr, M. W. Jr.
Adams, Mr. Luther B.
Adams, Mr. S. Jarvis
Adams, Mrs. S. Jarvis
Affelder, Mr. Louis
Alberg, Mrs. G. A. F.
Albree, Mrs. Chester
Albree, Mrs. Joseph
Alderdice, Mrs. Taylor
Alexander, Rev. Maitland
Allen,' Col. Edward Jay-
Allen, Mrs. Edward Jay
Allen, Mr. Harold
Alter, Mr. George E.
Anderson, Mrs. J. Hartley
Anderson, Mr. S. H.
Ankrom, Miss Anna
Arbuckle, Miss Christina
Armstrong, Mrs. Charles D.
Atwood, Mrs. Moses
Aufhammer, Mrs. J. Charles
Aull, Mrs. W. F.
Ayers, Mr. H. B.
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Baer, Mr. Morris
Bailey, Mr. Reade W.
Bailey, Mr. Samuel, Jr.
Balr, Mr. Henry
Bakewell, Miss Euphemia
Balken, Mrs. Henry
Banks, Mr. J. E.
Barclay, Miss Nannie
Barr, Mr. A. J.
Barr, Mrs. A. J.
Barr, Mr. James H.
Bartlett, Mr. H. N.
Bassett, Mrs. Geo. P., Jr.
Beach, Dr. William M.
Beatty, Dr. H. K.
Beatty, Mr. J. L.
Beatty, Mr. John W.
Beatty, Mrs. John W.
Beggs, Mr. H. C.
Behr, Mr. Louis C.
Bell, Mr. Arthur W.
Bell, Mr. John P.
Bell, Mrs. John P.
Benkiser, Mr. William F.
Benner, Miss Margaret C,
Bennett, Mr. C. W.
Bennett, Mr. J. C.
Bigelow, Mr. E. M.
Billings, Dr. F. T.
Billquist, Mr. T. E.
Bindley, Mr. Edward H.
Bindley, Mrs. Edward H.
Bindley, Mr. John
Bissell, Mr. Frank S.
Bissell, Mrs. Frank S.
Bixler, Mr. A. G.
Blackburn, Mr. W. W.
Blackburn, Mrs. W. W.
Blair, Dr. Alexander
Blair, Dr. Esther L.
Blair, Dr. W. W.
Blake, Mr. William B.
Blake, Mrs. William B.
Blum, Miss Elise
Boggs, Mr. R. H.
Bonsall, Mr. Ward
Bope, Col. H. P.
Boss, Miss Mary P.
Boswell, Mr. A. C.
Boswell, Mr. Walter
Botsford, Mr. E. P.
Brackenridge, Mr. H. M.
Brackenridge, Mrs. H. M.
Bradshaw, Mr. J. C.
Brashear, Dr. John A.
Breeze, Miss Mary P.
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Brown, Mr. Arthur D.
Brown, Mr. Charles W.
Brown, Mr. Joseph S.
Brown, Mr. Louis
Brown, Mrs. Louis
Brown, Mrs. Marshall
Brown, Mr. Thomas Stephen
Buchanan, Dr. J. J.
Buhl, Mr. Henry, Jr.
Buhl, Mrs. Henry, Jr.
Burchfield, Mrs. A. P.
Burgwin, Mrs. A. P.
Burgwin, Mrs. John H. K.
Burns, Mr. Allen T.
Caldwell, Mrs. John
Callahan, Miss Marietta
Cameron, Dr. W. H.
Camp, Mr. James M.
Campbell, Mr. Wilson A.
Canevin, Rt. Rev. Bishop
Carmack, Mr. H. E.
Carmalt, Dr. H. G.
Carnegie, Mrs. George L.
Carothers, Mrs. William M.
Carpenter, Mr. W. J.
Carr, Mrs. Paschall
Carr, Mr. Wesley G.
Carr, Mrs. Wesley G.
Carson, Mrs. John B.
Cassidy, Mr. W. H.
Cassidy, Mrs. W. H.
Chace, Miss Edith
Chalfant, Miss Isabel
Chiiders, Mr. C. E. E.
Childs, Mr. A. H.
Childs, Mrs. Asa P.
Childs, Mr. Harvey L.
Church, Col. Samuel Harden
Claney, Mrs. Clifford D.
Clarke, Mrs. Cyrus
Clark, Mrs. W. E.
Clause, Mr. W. L.
Clemson, Mrs. D. M.
Coffin, Mrs. Ella B.
Cohan, Mr. Martin J.
Cohn, Mrs. William H.
Cohoe, Dr. Benson H.
Colestock, Miss Sidney
Columbian Council Jewish
Women.
Collins, Mr. Henry L.
Collins, Mrs. Henry L.
Comes, Mr. John T.
Connell, Mr. William H.
Corey, Mr. William E,
Covert, Mrs. J. J.
Craig, Mr. F. E.
Craig, Miss Jean
Craver, Mr. Harrison W.
Graver, Mrs. Harrison W.
Crawford, Mr. Charles S.
Crawford, Mrs. Charles S.
Crocker, Mr. E. E.
Crocker, Mrs. E. E,
Crocker, Mr. Henry Irving
Crone, Mr. D. A.
Crutchfield, Mr. J. S.
Curll, Dr. C. L.
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Dangerfield, Jr., Mr. Ben.
Davis, Mr. Henry A.
Davis, Mr. H. P.
Davis, Mr. W. L.
Davis, Mr. W. L.
Davison, Mr. N. C.
Denny, Mrs. Harmar D.
Denny, Miss Matilda
Demmler, Mr. A. J.
DeOvies, Senora Blanca
Dermitt, Miss H. M.
Dewhurst. Mrs. A. M.
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Dick, Mrs. J. C.
Dickson, Mrs. Thomas
Dilworth, Mrs, George W.
Dohrman, Mr. Frank
Dohrman, Miss Rachel
Doty, Miss Helen C.
Douglas, Mr. William
Dranga, Dr. Amelia
Dravo, Mr. E. T.
Dravo, Mrs. Horace
Duff, Mr. J. Boyd
Duff, Mrs. Levi Bird
Duff, Mr. R. P.
Dunham, Major David E,
DuPuy, Miss Eleanor
DuPuy, Mr. Herbert
DuPuy, Mrs. Herbert
Dysart, Prof. P. M.
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Earl, Mrs. Edwin
Eaton, Miss Jeanette M.
Eaton, Mr. John
Eaton, Mrs. John
Eaton, Dr. Percival J.
Eaton, Mrs. Percival J.
Edsall, Mr. Charles A.
Edw^ards, Mrs. George D.
Edwards, Dr. Harold R.
Edwards, Mrs. Harold R.
Edwards, Dr. J. F.
Edwards, Miss Katherine M.
Eichleay, Miss Katherine
Elliot, Mr. J. W.
Ellis, Miss Sara Frazier
Elterich, Dr. Theo. J.
Ely, Mrs. Sumner B.
English, Mr. H. D. W.
English, Mrs. H. D. W.
Estrada, Mrs. Esteban D.
Esquerre, Prof. Edmund
Everest, Mr. W. B.
Ewing, Dr. W. B.
Falconer, Mr. William
Felix, Mr. Otto F.
Fenollosa, Dr. Sidney K.
Field, Mr. William P.
Finkelpearl, Mrs. Henry
Fisher, Mr. H. W.
Flaccus, Mrs. George
Fletcher, Mr. J. Gilmore
Fleishman, Mrs. S. L.
Fleming, Mrs. Andrew
Fording, Mrs. Arthur 0.
Foster, Dr. W. S.
Foster, Mrs. W. S.
Francis, Mr. James L.
Francis, Mrs. James L.
Frew, Miss Margaret A.
Frew, Mr. William
Garland, Mrs. John W.
Garland, Mr. Robert
Gerwig, Mrs. Charles W.
Gleim, Miss Mary A.
Goehring, Mr. John M.
Goldsmith, Dr. Luba Robin
Gorman, Miss Letitia
Gormley, Mrs. E. W.
Graff. Mr. R. M.
Grange, Rev. Robert W.
Graver, Mrs. E.
Gray, Miss Mary
Grayson, Dr. Thomas W.
Gribble, Mrs. M. B. K.
Grimes, Miss Helen
Grimes, Mr. William D.
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Hailman, Mr. J. D.
Hall, Dr. Henry M.
Hall, Miss Margaret G.
Hall, Mr. Robert C.
Hall, Mrs. Robert C.
Hallock, Mrs. William E.
Hamburger, Mr. Phillip
Hamerschlag, Mrs. Arthur
Hamilton, Mrs. A. R.
Hamilton, Mrs. William D.
Hammond, Mrs. James H.
Hanauer, Mr. A. M.
Harbison, Mr. Ralph W.
Harbison, Mrs. Ralph W.
Harbison, Mr. William A.
Harper, Mrs. Ignatia
Hartman, Mrs. Galen C.
Hawkins, Mr. Richard
Haworth, Mrs. Jehu
Hay, Mr. J. Walter
Head, Mr. R. M.
Heard, Dr. James D.
Heard, Mrs. James D.
Heasley, Mrs. P. O.
Heckel, Dr. E. B.
Heeren, Mr. William
Hegemen, Miss Annie M.
Heinz, Mr. Clarence
Heinz, Mr. Howard C.
Heinz, Mr. H. J,
Henrici, Mr. Arthur
Henrici, Mr. Jacob
Herr, Mr. E. M.
Hershman, Mr. Oliver S.
Herriot, Miss Emma J.
Herron, Mr. John W.
Herron, Mrs. John W.
Herron, Mr. W. A.
Hilliard, Mr. W. H. R,
Hilliard, Mrs. W. H. R.
Hirsch, Mr. Isaac E.
Hirsch, Dr. Leon
Hoffman, Mrs. Julius
Hogg, Mrs. Frank J.
Holdship, Mr. C. F.
Holmes, Mrs. John G.
Home, Mrs. Albert
Home, Mrs. Durbin
Houston, Mr. Chas. W.
Houston, Mrs. Chas. W.
Houston, Mr. James W.
Huselton, Mrs. W. S.
Hussey, Mr. C. C.
lams, Mrs. F. P.
lams, Dr. J. Donald
lams, Mr. J. Dorsey
Ingram, Dr. W. H.
Irish, Miss Charlotte
Irish, Mrs. Dallas
Irish, Mr. F. C.
Irish, Mr. Howard
Jackson, Miss Mary Louise
Jamison, Miss Margaret
Jamison, Miss Martha
Janssen, Mr. B.
Jennings, Mr. E. H.
Jennings, Mrs. E. H.
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Johns, Miss L. E.
Johnson, Mr. George E.
Johnson, Mr. William K.
Johnston, Dr. George C.
Johnston, Dr. James I,
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Kay, Mr. Frederick G.
Kay, Mrs. Frederick G.
Kay, Mr. James I.
Kay, Mrs. James I.
Kebler, Mr. Eliot A.
Keenan, Miss Sophia
Keenan, Mr. T. J.
Kellogg, Dr. Frederick S.
Kelly, Mr. A. J., Jr.
Kelly, Mrs. A. J., Jr.
Kelly, Miss Martha E.
Kelso, Mrs. James A.
Kennedy, Miss Charlotte
Kennedy, Mr. Julian
Kennedy, Mrs. Julian
Kennedy, Mr. William M.
Kennedy, Mrs. William M.
Kerr, Miss Jane
Keys, Mr. John A.
Kibler, Mrs. J. R.
Kiehnel, Mr. Richard
King, Mrs. Alexander
Kirtland, Mr. A. P.
Klee, Mr. W. B.
Kleibacker, Mr. Fred R.
Kleibacker, Mrs. Fred. R.
Koeller, Dr. F. S.
Koenig, Dr. Adolph
Kuhn, Mr. James S.
Kunz, Mrs. William R.
Lacock, Mrs. J. Stewart
Lamme, Mr. Benjamin
Lauder, Mrs. George
Lang, Miss Mary P.
Lange, Dr. J. C.
Langfitt, Mr. Joseph
Latshaw, Mrs. Wm. H.
Latus, Mr. C. C.
Laughlin, Mrs. Henry
Leatherman, Miss Marian
Leatherman, Mr. W. H.
Leatherman, Mrs. W. H.
Leeds, Mr. Chas. C.
Lehman, Mr. George Mustin
LeMoyne, Mr. F. J.
Levin, Mr. Leonard S.
Lewis, Mr. J. L,
Lewis, Mrs. J. L.
Lincoln, Mr. William E.
Lindeman, Dr. C. E.
Lindsay, Dr. H. D.
Lindsay, Mr. Wm. T.
Litchfield, Dr. Lawrence
Little, Rev. R. M.
Lloyd, Mr. S. H.
Lloyd, Mrs. S. H.
Lockhart, Mr. James H.
Lockhart, Mrs. James H.
Logan, Col. Albert J.
Lohstoeter, Mr. Frederick
Longmore, Mrs. A.
Longwell, Mrs. Henry
Lovejoy, Mr. F. T. F.
Lovejoy, Mrs. F. T. F.
Lydick, Mr. Harry S.
Lyon, Mr. Chas. L.
Lyon, Mrs. Chas. L.
Lyon, Mr. J. Denniston
Lyon, Mr. W. T.
Macrum, Mr. William
Macrum, Mrs. William
Mangold, Mr. Oscar G.
Maple, Miss Susan
Maroney, Mr. D. F.
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Martin, Mrs. D. C.
Martin, Dr. Elizabeth L.
Martin, Mrs. Rufus
Martin, Mrs. Sherwood C.
Mason, Mr. H. D.
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Matheny, Dr. A. R.
Mattern, Mr. E. L.
Mattern, Mrs. E. L.
Matthews, Mrs . Vitallius
Matthews, Mr. William H.
Mazer, Mr. Marcus
Mehard, Hon. S. S.
Mellon, Mr. A. W.
Mellon, Mr. James R.
Mellon, Mrs. James R.
Mellon, Mr. R. B.
Mellon, Mr. Thos. Jr.
Mellor, Mrs. C. C.
Mellor, Mr. Walter C.
Metcalf, Mrs. Orlando
Miller, Dr. Harold
Miller, Mrs. Horace J.
Miller, Mrs. Reuben
Miller, Mrs. Sophia F.
Miller, Mrs. W. S.
Moffitt, Miss Clarissa
Molamphy, Mrs. J. M.
Moore, Mrs. J. H.
Moorhead, Miss Emilie
Moreland, Mrs. W. C.
Morris, Miss Sarah
Moyar, Dr. C. C.
Moyer, Dr. I. J.
Murdoch, Mr. Alexander
Murtland, Mrs. John A.
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MacClure, Mr. C. A.
Macgahan, Mr. Paul
MacLachan, Dr. A. A.
McAfee, Mr. Robert
McAloney, Mr. Thos. S.
McCague, Mr. R. S.
McCall, Miss Mary E.
McCallam, Mr. A. C.
McCallam, Mrs. A. C.
McClay, Mr. Samuel
McClelland, Dr. J. H.
McClintock, Mr. Oliver
McClung, Miss Isabelle
McClurkin, Rev. J. K.
McConnell, Miss Anna B.
McConnell, Miss Lide
McConway, Mr. Wm.
McConway, Mrs. Wm.
McCormick, Mr. J. C, Jr.
McCormick, Mrs. John S.
McCormick, Chancellor S. B.
McCormick, Miss Sophia
McCready, Dr. E. B.
McCreery, Miss Emilie
McCreight, Dr. W. S.
McCurdy, Dr. John R.
McCutcheon, Mrs. J. L.
McCutcheon, Mrs. W. A.
McDowell, Mr. J. C.
McDowell, Mrs. J. C.
McGiffin, Mr. Malcolm
McGill, Mr. John
McGinley, Mr. John R.
McGinley, Mrs. John R.
Mcllvaine, Mr. George D.
Mcllvaine, Rev. J. H.
Mcllvaine, Mrs. J. H.
McKaig, Mrs. Caroline
McKavney, Mr. John R.
McKee, Mr. Logan
McKnight, Mr. Chas.
McKnight, Mr. T. H. B.
McKnight, Mr. Samuel
McKnight, Mrs. W. T.
McLean, Mrs. Chas. B.
McLean, Mrs. Chas. Voight
McMillan, Miss Belle S.
McNair, Mr. William
McVay, Mr. Chas. C.
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Neeley, Mr. Harry W.
Neeley, Mrs. Harry W.
Neeper, Miss Marian
Neff, Dr. E. L.
Negley, Mr. Henry H.
Nettelton, Dr. D. P.
Neumont, Miss Kate
Newcomer, Major H. C.
Newmeyer, Mrs. J. C.
Nicholson, Mrs. John
Niebaum, Mr. John H.
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O'Brien, Mrs. G. G.
O'Connor, Mrs. P. J.
Ohl, Mrs, J. Arthur
Ohlman, Dr. I. L.
Oliver, Mr. Augustus K.
Oliver, Mrs. David B.
Oliver, Mrs. Jas. B.
Oliver, Miss Mildred
O'Neil, Mr. Edward
Osborne, Mr. L. A.
Osborne, Mrs. L. A.
Packer, Mr. Gibson
Painter, Mr. Chas. A.
Panarello, Mr. Autonino
Park, Mr. D. E.
Park, Mr. James H.
Park, Mrs. James H.
Parker, Miss Alice N.
Patterson, Dr. Ellen J.
Patterson, Miss Hannah
Patterson. Mr. Robert W.
Patterson, Mrs. Robert W.
Patton, Mr. F. B.
Peacock, Mrs. Alexander
Penny, Major J. P.
Perkins, Mr. F. C.
Perley, Mrs. J. A.
Pettit, Dr. Albert
Pettit, Mrs. Albert
Phillips, Mr. John M.
Pickering, Mrs. S. A.
Pitt, Miss M. Emmilinne
Porter, Hon. H. K.
Porter, Mrs. H. K.
Potter, Mr. John E.
Price, Mr. Chas. B.
Quay, Mrs. Richard R.
Quigley, Mr. J. Edward
Quinn, Miss Mary .A.
Ramsey, Dr. Anna B.
Rauh, Mrs. Enoch
Reed, Mr. R. R.
Rhodes, Dr. Fred. A.
Ricketson, Miss Sarah G.
Rieck, Mrs. E. E.
Robbins, Mr. F. L.
Robbins, Mrs. F. L,
Roberts, Mr. Geo. L.
Roberts, Miss Jennie L.
Roberts, Mr. W. A.
Robinson, Mr. W. H.
Rodgers, Mrs. W. B.
Rodgers, Mrs. W. L.
Ross, Mrs. Mansfield
Rowe, Mr. Wallace H.
Russell, Mr, Fred A.
Russell, Dr. J. M.
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Samson, Mr. Harry
Sanes, Dr. K. I.
Sawyer, Miss Eleanor
Sawyer, Miss Mary H.
Scaife, Mr. W. L.
Schatzman, Dr. E. P.
Schleuderberg, Mr. Geo. W.
Schoyer, Mr. A. M.
Schoyer, Mrs. L. D.
Schoyer, Mr. Wm. E.
Schreuder, Mrs. J. G.
Schuette, Mr. Wm. H.
Scott, Mr. Chas. F.
Scott, Mrs. Chas. F.
Scott, Mrs. William
Scandrett, Mr. R. B.
Scandrett, Mrs. R. B.
Scully, Mr. Cornelius D.
Scully, Mrs. Cornelius D.
Scully, Mr. Henry B.
Scully, Mrs. Henry R.
Seip, Mrs. C. P.
Seip, Miss
Semple, Miss Mary
Seymour, Mrs. S. L.
Shaffer, Mrs. Annie McKee
Shaw, Mr. Geo. E.
Shaw, Mrs. Geo. E.
Shaw, Mr. Wilson A.
Shea, Mr. J. B.
Sherrard, Prof. R. M.
Shrom, Dr. Laura G.
Shute, Mr. H. D.
Sill, Herbert F.
Singer, Mrs. W. H.
Siviter, Mrs. W. H.
Skelding, Mr. F. H.
Skelding, Mrs. F. H.
Slocum, Mrs. Frank
Smith, Mrs. Anna E.
Smith, Mr. Arthur H.
Smith, Mrs. Arthur H.
Smith, Mrs. A. W.
Smith, Mr. E. Z.
Smith, Mr. Lee S.
Smith, Mrs. Norman
Smith, Mr. R. E.
Smith, Dr. Stanley
Smith, Mrs. W. W.
Spiro, Dr. M.
Speer, Mr. John Z.
Spencer, Mrs. Chas. H.
Spring, Miss Anna M.
Sprowls, Mr. T. W.
Stahlman, Dr. T. M.
Starr, Mrs. A. B.
Steel, Mrs. John F.
Steinmeyer, Mr. W.
Stephenson, Mrs. J. F.
Sterrett, Dr. J. K.
Stevenson, Miss Eleanor J.
Stevenson, Mrs. Wm. H.
Stewart, Mr. D. G.
Stewart, Mrs. D. G.
Stewart, Mr. Hamilton
Stieren, Dr. Edward
Stimmel, Mr. B. C.
Stoebner, Mr. Geo. H.
Stone, Mrs. Wm. A.
Storer, Mr. N. W.
Stotz, Mr. Edward
St. Peter, Miss Helen
Stucky, Mrs. Pauline L.
Sturtevant, Mr. Paul
Sturtevant, Mrs. Paul
Sullivan, Mrs. Edwin R.
Sullivan, Mrs. J. H.
Sunstein, Mr. A. J.
Sunstein, Mrs. A. J.
Suydam, Miss Emma
Swan, Miss Grace
Sweeney, Mrs. Gilliford
Sweeney, Miss Sara
Swensson, Mr. Emil
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Taylor, Mr. Alexander
Taylor, Mrs. Chas. L.
Taylor, Mr. Daniel
Taylor, Mrs. Daniel
Taylor, Mr. Ed. B.
Thaw, Mrs. Copley
Thaw, Mr. Wm.
Thaw, Mrs. Wm. Jr.
Thomson, Mrs. Phillip
Thompson, Mr. Edward
Thompson, Mr. Wm. D.
Thompson, Mrs. W. R.
Thurston, Miss Alice
Tipper, Mrs. W. J,
Topp, Mr. O. M.
Torrence, Mr. Francis J.
Torrence. Mrs. Francis J.
Trinks, Prof. Willibald
Trump, Miss Isabel
Turner, Mrs. J. J.
Ulp, Mrs. R. M.
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Vaill, Mr. Edward B.
Van Dyke, Mrs. W. S.
Van Wagonen, Mrs.
Wade, Mr. Angus
Wade, Mrs. Florence
Walker, Mrs. John
Walker, Dr. W. K.
Wallace, Mrs. Augusta
Wallace, Mrs. John C.
Wallace, Mrs. Wm. T.
Wardrop, Mrs. Robert
Warmcastle, Mrs. Grace
Wasson, Mrs. Henry G.
Wattles, Mr. Chas. W.
Wattles, Mr. W. W.
Wattles, Mrs. W. W.
Webster, Mr. Fred. S.
Webster, Mrs. Fred S.
Weil, Mr. A. Leo.
Weil, Mrs. A. Leo.
Weil, Mr. J.
Weisser, Dr. Ed. A.
Wells, Miss Alice
Waller, Mr. Chas. F.
Welles, Miss Jessie
Westervelt, Dr. H. C.
Wendt, Mr. John S.
Whitehead, Miss M.
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Veeder, Dr. Andrew
Vermorcken. Mrs. E.
Voltz, Miss Elizabeth
Whitman, Miss Helen
Whitman, Mr. Paul
Whitman, Mrs. Wm. T.
Wholey, Dr. C. C.
Wible, Dr. E. E.
Wilcox, Mrs. Frank
Willetts, Mr. E. A.
Williamson, Dr. J. H.
Willson, Mr. Frank E.
Wilson, Mrs. Columbus
Wilson, Mrs. George H.
Winner, Mr. H. E.
Wise, Mr. Wm. F.
Wishart, Mr. W. W.
Wood, Mrs. W. H.
Woods, Mr. E. A.
Woods, Mrs. E. A.
Woods, Mr. Lawrence
Woodwell, Mrs. John
Woodwell, Mrs. Wm. E.
Wright, Mrs. H. T.
Wright, Miss H. W.
Wurtz, Mr. Alexander
Wurtz, Mrs. Alexander
Civic Club of Allegheny County 123
Young, Mr. Samuel
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Zahn, Mrs. William A. Zeller, Mrs. August
Zeller, Mr. August
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Affiliations 101
Allegheny County Industrial & Training School for Boys. . . .79
Allegheny County Child Labor Association 71
Arbor Day 27
Arsenal Park 37
Art Exhibit in Public Schools 26
Associated Charities 22
Billboards 95
Block House 50
Building Code 93
Camp School 83
Child Labor 68-69
Children's Leagues of Good Citizenship 21
Cigarettes to Minors 35
City-Budget 92
City Charter 38
Civic Exhibit 82
Committee on Tuberculosis 61
Conservation 83
Constitution and By Laws 107
Conventions 72
Court House Alterations 60
Department of Art 12
Department of Government 11
Down Town Libraries 72
Educational Department 11
Evening Industrial Schools 1898 28
Educational Work Among Foreigners 84
Expectoration 16
Federal Legislation — 1907 76
Federal Legislation — 1909 88
Federal Legislation . . 1910 100
Finances 101
Floods 92
Forestry 59
Free Bridges 83
Garbage 13
Greater Pittsburgh 75
Grouping of Public Buildings 73
Guarantors 102
Home for Truant Children 77
Immigration Committee 98
Increased Gas Rates 75
Juvenile Court 39
Lectures from 1896 to 1910
Lectures in Public Schools — 1902 51
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Lectures in Public Schools— 1903 51
Lecture Course— 1909 87
Legal Aid 33
Medical Inspection 62
Membership 114
Miscellaneous Activities — 1896 19
Miscellaneous Activities — 1898 28
Miss McKnight's Death 76
Model Tenements 36
Municipal Hospital 18
Municipal Lodging House for Men 94
Officers and Directors 5
Open- Air Schools 85
Open Meetings 87
Organization 7
Peoples Bath 19
Peoples Gardens 18
Permanent Civic Committee 42
Pittsburgh Plan 91
Playgrounds , 14
Presidents 9
Pure Milk 82
Pure Water 12
Railroad Ordinances 50
Reformatory for Women 95
Removal of Penitentiary 82
Rooms of detention 88
Salute to the flag 21
School Inspection 36
Scholarships 69
Secretaries 10
Smoke 33
Social Science Department 12
Soho Public Baths 42
State Legislation— 1905 . 23
State Legislation— 1907 . 75
State Legislation— 1909 87
Subway 73
Teachers & Parents Association 38
Tenement House Reform 52
Traveling Libraries 59
The Survey 74
Trains on Liberty Street 60
Treasurer 10
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Tree Commission 90
Vice Crusade 91
Young Men's Civic Club of Allegheny 31
Youngs Men's Civic Club of Lawrenceville 29
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